[PATCH v3] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst

From: Hemanth Selam

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 07:58:10 EST


Add the missing "i" to "initalised" in the description of the
spin-table cpu-release-addr property.

The British spelling is deliberate. doc-guide/contributing.rst asks
that both American and British spellings be left alone, so only the typo
is corrected, not the dialect. checkpatch.pl suggests "initialized"
here because scripts/spelling.txt maps this entry to the American form;
that is addressed separately.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
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Notes:
Changes since v2:
- the guidance lives in doc-guide/contributing.rst, not
doc-guide/checkpatch.rst as v2 claimed (Weijie Yuan)
- drop the v1 narrative and the redundant "only the documentation text
changes" line

Changes since v1:
- keep "initialised" rather than switching the file to "initialized",
so the British spelling is preserved (Randy Dunlap)

Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
index 13ef311dace8..891fd22f7229 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ following manner:

- CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr'
property in their cpu node. This property identifies a
- naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location.
+ naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initialised memory location.

These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of
memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the
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