[PATCH] alpha: fix typos in comments

From: Hemanth Selam

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 10:33:49 EST


Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments, no code
changes.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c | 2 +-
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 2 +-
arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c b/arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c
index c6079308eab3..85ccfae58960 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ start_kernel(void)
#ifdef DEBUG_LAST_STEPS
srm_printk("Preparing INITRD info...\n");
#endif
- /* Finally, set the INITRD paramenters for the kernel. */
+ /* Finally, set the INITRD parameters for the kernel. */
((long *)(ZERO_PGE+256))[0] = initrd_image_start;
((long *)(ZERO_PGE+256))[1] = INITRD_IMAGE_SIZE;

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index 1e700468a685..6b98bd3e7df6 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
#define MADV_HUGEPAGE 14 /* Worth backing with hugepages */
#define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE 15 /* Not worth backing with hugepages */

-#define MADV_DONTDUMP 16 /* Explicity exclude from the core dump,
+#define MADV_DONTDUMP 16 /* Explicitly exclude from the core dump,
overrides the coredump filter bits */
#define MADV_DODUMP 17 /* Clear the MADV_NODUMP flag */

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
index 955b6ca61627..093a265adcbf 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ static void alpha_pci_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
-1 : Not leader, physically adjacent to previous.
-2 : Not leader, virtually adjacent to previous.
Write dma_length of each leader with the combined lengths of
- the mergable followers. */
+ the mergeable followers. */

#define SG_ENT_VIRT_ADDRESS(SG) (sg_virt((SG)))
#define SG_ENT_PHYS_ADDRESS(SG) __pa(SG_ENT_VIRT_ADDRESS(SG))
--
2.48.1