[PATCH v2 0/9] docs: fix spelling mistakes across multiple directories

[PATCH v2 0/9] docs: fix spelling mistakes across multiple directories

[Soham Metha]

Used codespell to detect spelling mistakes across multiple directories
and fixed various simple typos found after manually filtering out the
abbreviations, names, and non-english words.

These changes were split by subsystem as requested during review of v1.

---

Specific changes:

> deivces -> devices
> substracting -> subtracting

in `Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs`

> conventioanl -> conventional
> directoy -> directory

in `Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst`

> Availablity -> Availability

in `Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst`

> flushs -> flushes
> explicitely -> explicitly

in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst`

> approriate -> appropriate

in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst`

> aproximate -> approximate

in `Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst`

> directores -> directories

in `Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst`

> multipled -> multiplied

in `Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst`.

> entension -> extension

in `Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst`

> userpace -> userspace

in `Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst`

> whoes -> whose

in `Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst`

---

Changes since v1:
 - Split into multiple patches per subsystem
 - Adjusted heading underline lengths where necessary to avoid build warnings

---

Soham Metha (9):
  docs: f2fs: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation
  docs: zoned_loop: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation
  docs: cgroup: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation
  docs: device-mapper: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation
  docs: alienware-wmi: fixed spelling mistake in admin guide
  docs: damon: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation
  docs: loongarch: fixed spelling mistake in documentation
  docs: admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fixed spelling mistake in
    documentation
  docs: symbol-namespaces: fixed spelling mistake in documentation

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs                | 6 +++---
 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst      | 4 ++--
 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst                | 4 ++--
 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst      | 8 ++++----
 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst | 2 +-
 Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst    | 2 +-
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst           | 2 +-
 Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst          | 2 +-
 Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst        | 2 +-
 Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst           | 2 +-
 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst                      | 2 +-
 11 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 1/9] docs: f2fs: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typos

- deivces -> devices
- substracting -> subtracting

in `Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
index bc0e7fefc39d..5f53938d07c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
@@ -822,8 +822,8 @@ What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/gc_valid_thresh_ratio
 Date:		September 2024
 Contact:	"Daeho Jeong" <daehojeong@google.com>
 Description:	It controls the valid block ratio threshold not to trigger excessive GC
-		for zoned deivces. The initial value of it is 95(%). F2FS will stop the
-		background GC thread from intiating GC for sections having valid blocks
+		for zoned devices. The initial value of it is 95(%). F2FS will stop the
+		background GC thread from initiating GC for sections having valid blocks
 		exceeding the ratio.
 
 What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/max_read_extent_count
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ Description:	For several zoned storage devices, vendors will provide extra space
 		filesystem level GC. To do that, we can reserve the space using
 		reserved_blocks. However, it is not enough, since this extra space should
 		not be shown to users. So, with this new sysfs node, we can hide the space
-		by substracting reserved_blocks from total bytes.
+		by subtracting reserved_blocks from total bytes.
 
 What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/encoding_flags
 Date:		April 2025
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 3/9] docs: cgroup: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- Availablity -> Availability

in `Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index d9d3cc7df348..51c0bc4c2dc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -435,8 +435,8 @@ both cgroups.
 Controlling Controllers
 -----------------------
 
-Availablity
-~~~~~~~~~~~
+Availability
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 A controller is available in a cgroup when it is supported by the kernel (i.e.,
 compiled in, not disabled and not attached to a v1 hierarchy) and listed in the
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 4/9] docs: device-mapper: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typos

- flushs -> flushes
- explicitely -> explicitly

in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst`, and

- approriate -> appropriate

in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst      | 8 ++++----
 Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
index 4d667228e744..a1e673c0e782 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dm-delay
 ========
 
 Device-Mapper's "delay" target delays reads and/or writes
-and/or flushs and optionally maps them to different devices.
+and/or flushes and optionally maps them to different devices.
 
 Arguments::
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Table line has to either have 3, 6 or 9 arguments:
    to write and flush operations on optionally different write_device with
    optionally different sector offset
 
-9: same as 6 arguments plus define flush_offset and flush_delay explicitely
+9: same as 6 arguments plus define flush_offset and flush_delay explicitly
    on/with optionally different flush_device/flush_offset.
 
 Offsets are specified in sectors.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Example scripts
 	#!/bin/sh
 	#
 	# Create mapped device delaying write and flush operations for 400ms and
-	# splitting reads to device $1 but writes and flushs to different device $2
+	# splitting reads to device $1 but writes and flushes to different device $2
 	# to different offsets of 2048 and 4096 sectors respectively.
 	#
 	dmsetup create delayed --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 2048 0 $2 4096 400"
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Example scripts
 ::
 	#!/bin/sh
 	#
-	# Create mapped device delaying reads for 50ms, writes for 100ms and flushs for 333ms
+	# Create mapped device delaying reads for 50ms, writes for 100ms and flushes for 333ms
 	# onto the same backing device at offset 0 sectors.
 	#
 	dmsetup create delayed --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 0 50 $2 0 100 $1 0 333"
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
index 3cd59decbec0..faa0ecd4a5ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ lock and return itself to the pool.
 All storage within vdo is managed as 4KB blocks, but it can accept writes
 as small as 512 bytes. Processing a write that is smaller than 4K requires
 a read-modify-write operation that reads the relevant 4K block, copies the
-new data over the approriate sectors of the block, and then launches a
+new data over the appropriate sectors of the block, and then launches a
 write operation for the modified data block. The read and write stages of
 this operation are nearly identical to the normal read and write
 operations, and a single data_vio is used throughout this operation.
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 5/9] docs: alienware-wmi: fixed spelling mistake in admin guide

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- aproximate -> approximate

in `Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
index 27a32a8057da..e532c60db8e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ information.
 
 Manual fan control on the other hand, is not exposed directly by the AWCC
 interface. Instead it let's us control a fan `boost` value. This `boost` value
-has the following aproximate behavior over the fan pwm:
+has the following approximate behavior over the fan pwm:
 
 ::
 
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 6/9] docs: damon: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typos

- directores -> directories

in `Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst`, and

- multipled -> multiplied

in `Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst`.

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst | 2 +-
 Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
index ff3a2dda1f02..5cd42d428c89 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ The directory for the :ref:`quotas <damon_design_damos_quotas>` of the given
 DAMON-based operation scheme.
 
 Under ``quotas`` directory, four files (``ms``, ``bytes``,
-``reset_interval_ms``, ``effective_bytes``) and two directores (``weights`` and
+``reset_interval_ms``, ``effective_bytes``) and two directories (``weights`` and
 ``goals``) exist.
 
 You can set the ``time quota`` in milliseconds, ``size quota`` in bytes, and
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
index 03f8137256f5..de95cc74b0fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ The tuning is turned off by default, and need to be set explicitly by the user.
 As a rule of thumbs and the Parreto principle, 4% access samples ratio target
 is recommended.  Note that Parreto principle (80/20 rule) has applied twice.
 That is, assumes 4% (20% of 20%) DAMON-observed access events ratio (source)
-to capture 64% (80% multipled by 80%) real access events (outcomes).
+to capture 64% (80% multiplied by 80%) real access events (outcomes).
 
 To know how user-space can use this feature via :ref:`DAMON sysfs interface
 <sysfs_interface>`, refer to :ref:`intervals_goal <sysfs_scheme>` part of
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 7/9] docs: loongarch: fixed spelling mistake in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- entension -> extension

in `Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst b/Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst
index a7ecce11e445..94ed2858a570 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/loongarch/irq-chip-model.rst
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Feature EXTIOI_HAS_INT_ENCODE is part of standard EIOINTC. If it is 1, it
 indicates that CPU Interrupt Pin selection can be normal method rather than
 bitmap method, so interrupt can be routed to IP0 - IP15.
 
-Feature EXTIOI_HAS_CPU_ENCODE is entension of V-EIOINTC. If it is 1, it
+Feature EXTIOI_HAS_CPU_ENCODE is extension of V-EIOINTC. If it is 1, it
 indicates that CPU selection can be normal method rather than bitmap method,
 so interrupt can be routed to CPU0 - CPU255.
 
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] docs: cgroup: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Tejun Heo]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 02:19:46AM +0530, Soham Metha wrote:
> found/fixed the following typo
> 
> - Availablity -> Availability
> 
> in `Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>

Applied to cgroup/for-6.17-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

[PATCH v2 8/9] docs: admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fixed spelling mistake in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- userpace -> userspace

in `Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
index a0cc017e4424..ed1f8f1e86c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,6 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
 
  18) ``N`` if an in-kernel test, such as a KUnit test, has been run.
 
- 19) ``J`` if userpace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
+ 19) ``J`` if userspace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
      to use the devices debugging features. Device debugging features could
      cause the device to malfunction in undefined ways.
-- 
2.34.1

[PATCH v2 9/9] docs: symbol-namespaces: fixed spelling mistake in documentation

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- whoes -> whose

in `Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
index 32fc73dc5529..18278dc6ca2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ For example::
 
   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*")
 
-will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given
+will limit usage of this symbol to modules whose name matches the given
 patterns.
 
 How to use Symbols exported in Namespaces
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] docs: damon: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[SeongJae Park]

+ damon@lists.linux.dev

On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:19:49 +0530 Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com> wrote:

> found/fixed the following typos
> 
> - directores -> directories
> 
> in `Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage.rst`, and
> 
> - multipled -> multiplied
> 
> in `Documentation/mm/damon/design.rst`.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>

Thank you for finding and fixing this!

Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

[...]

Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] docs: alienware-wmi: fixed spelling mistake in admin guide

[Kurt Borja]

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Hi Soham,

On Tue Aug 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM -05, Soham Metha wrote:
> found/fixed the following typo
>
> - aproximate -> approximate

Thanks!

>
> in `Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst`
>
> Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>

Please, Cc this to the appropriate subsystem and maintainers. You can
check MAINTAINERS or use ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl.

After that is addressed:

Reviewed-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
> index 27a32a8057da..e532c60db8e2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ information.
>  
>  Manual fan control on the other hand, is not exposed directly by the AWCC
>  interface. Instead it let's us control a fan `boost` value. This `boost` value
> -has the following aproximate behavior over the fan pwm:
> +has the following approximate behavior over the fan pwm:
>  
>  ::
>  


-- 
 ~ Kurt


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Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] docs: f2fs: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Chao Yu]

On 8/13/25 04:15, Soham Metha wrote:
> found/fixed the following typos
> 
> - deivces -> devices
> - substracting -> subtracting
> 
> in `Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>

Thanks,

Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] docs: alienware-wmi: fixed spelling mistake in admin guide

[Soham Metha]

found/fixed the following typo

- aproximate -> approximate

in `Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst`

Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
---

> You are missing mailing lists:
> 
>   - platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
>   - linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> And platform-drivers-x86 subsystem maintainers:
> 
>   - Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
>   - Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
> 

Thanks for the clarification. I have added the missing mailing lists 
and subsystem maintainers as suggested.

---

 Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
index 27a32a8057da..e532c60db8e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ information.
 
 Manual fan control on the other hand, is not exposed directly by the AWCC
 interface. Instead it let's us control a fan `boost` value. This `boost` value
-has the following aproximate behavior over the fan pwm:
+has the following approximate behavior over the fan pwm:

Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] docs: device-mapper: fixed spelling mistakes in documentation

[Mikulas Patocka]

Applied, thanks.

Mikulas



On Wed, 13 Aug 2025, Soham Metha wrote:

> found/fixed the following typos
> 
> - flushs -> flushes
> - explicitely -> explicitly
> 
> in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst`, and
> 
> - approriate -> appropriate
> 
> in `Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst`
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soham Metha <sohammetha01@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst      | 8 ++++----
>  Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
> index 4d667228e744..a1e673c0e782 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/delay.rst
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dm-delay
>  ========
>  
>  Device-Mapper's "delay" target delays reads and/or writes
> -and/or flushs and optionally maps them to different devices.
> +and/or flushes and optionally maps them to different devices.
>  
>  Arguments::
>  
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Table line has to either have 3, 6 or 9 arguments:
>     to write and flush operations on optionally different write_device with
>     optionally different sector offset
>  
> -9: same as 6 arguments plus define flush_offset and flush_delay explicitely
> +9: same as 6 arguments plus define flush_offset and flush_delay explicitly
>     on/with optionally different flush_device/flush_offset.
>  
>  Offsets are specified in sectors.
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Example scripts
>  	#!/bin/sh
>  	#
>  	# Create mapped device delaying write and flush operations for 400ms and
> -	# splitting reads to device $1 but writes and flushs to different device $2
> +	# splitting reads to device $1 but writes and flushes to different device $2
>  	# to different offsets of 2048 and 4096 sectors respectively.
>  	#
>  	dmsetup create delayed --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 2048 0 $2 4096 400"
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Example scripts
>  ::
>  	#!/bin/sh
>  	#
> -	# Create mapped device delaying reads for 50ms, writes for 100ms and flushs for 333ms
> +	# Create mapped device delaying reads for 50ms, writes for 100ms and flushes for 333ms
>  	# onto the same backing device at offset 0 sectors.
>  	#
>  	dmsetup create delayed --table "0 `blockdev --getsz $1` delay $1 0 50 $2 0 100 $1 0 333"
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
> index 3cd59decbec0..faa0ecd4a5ae 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/vdo-design.rst
> @@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ lock and return itself to the pool.
>  All storage within vdo is managed as 4KB blocks, but it can accept writes
>  as small as 512 bytes. Processing a write that is smaller than 4K requires
>  a read-modify-write operation that reads the relevant 4K block, copies the
> -new data over the approriate sectors of the block, and then launches a
> +new data over the appropriate sectors of the block, and then launches a
>  write operation for the modified data block. The read and write stages of
>  this operation are nearly identical to the normal read and write
>  operations, and a single data_vio is used throughout this operation.
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>