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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index a028b92..8f7a0e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.
core_pipe_limit:
This sysctl is only applicable when core_pattern is configured to pipe core
-files to user space helper a (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
+files to a user space helper (when the first character of core_pattern is a '|',
see above). When collecting cores via a pipe to an application, it is
-occasionally usefull for the collecting application to gather data about the
+occasionally useful for the collecting application to gather data about the
crashing process from its /proc/pid directory. In order to do this safely, the
kernel must wait for the collecting process to exit, so as not to remove the
crashing processes proc files prematurely. This in turn creates the possibility
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ applications in parallel. If this value is exceeded, then those crashing
processes above that value are noted via the kernel log and their cores are
skipped. 0 is a special value, indicating that unlimited processes may be
captured in parallel, but that no waiting will take place (i.e. the collecting
-process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crahing pid>/). This value defaults
+process is not guaranteed access to /proc/<crashing pid>/). This value defaults
to 0.
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index a6e360d..fc5790d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The default is 1 percent.
mmap_min_addr
This file indicates the amount of address space which a user process will
-be restricted from mmaping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could
+be restricted from mmapping. Since kernel null dereference bugs could
accidentally operate based on the information in the first couple of pages
of memory userspace processes should not be allowed to write to them. By
default this value is set to 0 and no protections will be enforced by the
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