* On cpu 0, Assign ISA_IRQ_VECTOR(irq) to IRQ 0..15.
* If these IRQ's are handled by legacy interrupt-controllers like PIC,
* then this configuration will likely be static after the boot. If
- * these IRQ's are handled by more mordern controllers like IO-APIC,
+ * these IRQs are handled by more modern controllers like IO-APIC,
* then this vector space can be freed and re-used dynamically as the
* irq's migrate etc.
*/
* a 'real' unknown NMI. For example, while processing
* a perf NMI another perf NMI comes in along with a
* 'real' unknown NMI. These two NMIs get combined into
- * one (as descibed above). When the next NMI gets
+ * one (as described above). When the next NMI gets
* processed, it will be flagged by perf as handled, but
- * noone will know that there was a 'real' unknown NMI sent
+ * no one will know that there was a 'real' unknown NMI sent
* also. As a result it gets swallowed. Or if the first
* perf NMI returns two events handled then the second
* NMI will get eaten by the logic below, again losing a
/*
* We need to disable VMX on all CPUs before rebooting, otherwise
- * we risk hanging up the machine, because the CPU ignore INIT
+ * we risk hanging up the machine, because the CPU ignores INIT
* signals when VMX is enabled.
*
* We can't take any locks and we may be on an inconsistent
/*
* cpu_possible_mask should be static, it cannot change as cpu's
* are onlined, or offlined. The reason is per-cpu data-structures
- * are allocated by some modules at init time, and dont expect to
+ * are allocated by some modules at init time, and don't expect to
* do this dynamically on cpu arrival/departure.
* cpu_present_mask on the other hand can change dynamically.
* In case when cpu_hotplug is not compiled, then we resort to current
* transition from one expected value to another with a fairly
* high accuracy, and we didn't miss any events. We can thus
* use the TSC value at the transitions to calculate a pretty
- * good value for the TSC frequencty.
+ * good value for the TSC frequency.
*/
static inline int pit_verify_msb(unsigned char val)
{
* But as the TSC is per-logical CPU and can potentially be modified wrongly
* by the bios, TSC sync test for smaller duration should be able
* to catch such errors. Also this will catch the condition where all the
- * cores in the socket doesn't get reset at the same time.
+ * cores in the socket don't get reset at the same time.
*/
static inline unsigned int loop_timeout(int cpu)
{