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-rw-r--r--ipc/msg.c4
-rw-r--r--ipc/sem.c2
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 0e732e92e22f..7385de25788a 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
msq->q_stime = get_seconds();
if (!pipelined_send(msq, msg)) {
- /* noone is waiting for this message, enqueue it */
+ /* no one is waiting for this message, enqueue it */
list_add_tail(&msg->m_list, &msq->q_messages);
msq->q_cbytes += msgsz;
msq->q_qnum++;
@@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ long do_msgrcv(int msqid, long *pmtype, void __user *mtext,
* Disable preemption. We don't hold a reference to the queue
* and getting a reference would defeat the idea of a lockless
* operation, thus the code relies on rcu to guarantee the
- * existance of msq:
+ * existence of msq:
* Prior to destruction, expunge_all(-EIRDM) changes r_msg.
* Thus if r_msg is -EAGAIN, then the queue not yet destroyed.
* rcu_read_lock() prevents preemption between reading r_msg
diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index ae040a0727c2..34193ed69fbe 100644
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(semtimedop, int, semid, struct sembuf __user *, tsops,
* semid identifiers are not unique - find_alloc_undo may have
* allocated an undo structure, it was invalidated by an RMID
* and now a new array with received the same id. Check and fail.
- * This case can be detected checking un->semid. The existance of
+ * This case can be detected checking un->semid. The existence of
* "un" itself is guaranteed by rcu.
*/
error = -EIDRM;
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 8644452f5c4c..729acb7e3148 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(shmdt, char __user *, shmaddr)
/*
* We need look no further than the maximum address a fragment
* could possibly have landed at. Also cast things to loff_t to
- * prevent overflows and make comparisions vs. equal-width types.
+ * prevent overflows and make comparisons vs. equal-width types.
*/
size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
while (vma && (loff_t)(vma->vm_end - addr) <= size) {