Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate

Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.

Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Date:		September 2008
 Contact:	Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
-		is read-write.  When read, it's contents show the
+		is read-write.  When read, its contents show the
 		online/offline state of the memory section.  When written,
 		root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable
 		memory section (see removable file description above)

Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ failure can be determined by:
 
 			   Closing
 
-This document, and the API itself, would not be in it's current
+This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current
 form without the feedback and suggestions from numerous individuals.
 We would like to specifically mention, in no particular order, the
 following people:

Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ void (*host_stop) (struct ata_host_set *host_set);
 	allocates space for a legacy IDE PRD table and returns.
 	</para>
 	<para>
-	->port_stop() is called after ->host_stop().  It's sole function
+	->port_stop() is called after ->host_stop().  Its sole function
 	is to release DMA/memory resources, now that they are no longer
 	actively being used.  Many drivers also free driver-private
 	data from port at this time.

Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt

@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ The driver should return one of the following result codes:
 
 		- PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET
 		  Driver returns this if it thinks the device is not
-		  recoverable in it's current state and it needs a slot
+		  recoverable in its current state and it needs a slot
 		  reset to proceed.
 
 		- PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ in working condition.
 
 The driver is not supposed to restart normal driver I/O operations
 at this point.  It should limit itself to "probing" the device to
-check it's recoverability status. If all is right, then the platform
+check its recoverability status. If all is right, then the platform
 will call resume() once all drivers have ack'd link_reset().
 
 	Result codes:

Documentation/Smack.txt

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ NOTE: Smack labels are limited to 23 characters. The attr command
 If you don't do anything special all users will get the floor ("_")
 label when they log in. If you do want to log in via the hacked ssh
 at other labels use the attr command to set the smack value on the
-home directory and it's contents.
+home directory and its contents.
 
 You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form:
 

Documentation/arm/SA1100/ADSBitsy

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Notes:
 
 - The flash on board is divided into 3 partitions.
   You should be careful to use flash on board.
-  It's partition is different from GraphicsClient Plus and GraphicsMaster
+  Its partition is different from GraphicsClient Plus and GraphicsMaster
 
 - 16bpp mode requires a different cable than what ships with the board.
   Contact ADS or look through the manual to wire your own. Currently,

Documentation/arm/Sharp-LH/ADC-LH7-Touchscreen

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The driver only implements a four-wire touch panel protocol.
 
 The touchscreen driver is maintenance free except for the pen-down or
 touch threshold.  Some resistive displays and board combinations may
-require tuning of this threshold.  The driver exposes some of it's
+require tuning of this threshold.  The driver exposes some of its
 internal state in the sys filesystem.  If the kernel is configured
 with it, CONFIG_SYSFS, and sysfs is mounted at /sys, there will be a
 directory

Documentation/atomic_ops.txt

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ counter decrement would not become globally visible until the
 obj->active update does.
 
 As a historical note, 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of
-24-bits of it's atomic_t type.  This was because it used 8 bits
+24-bits of its atomic_t type.  This was because it used 8 bits
 as a spinlock for SMP safety.  Sparc32 lacked a "compare and swap"
 type instruction.  However, 32-bit Sparc has since been moved over
 to a "hash table of spinlocks" scheme, that allows the full 32-bit

Documentation/blackfin/bfin-gpio-notes.txt

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 	void bfin_gpio_irq_free(unsigned gpio);
 
     The request functions will record the function state for a certain pin,
-    the free functions will clear it's function state.
+    the free functions will clear its function state.
     Once a pin is requested, it can't be requested again before it is freed by
     previous caller, otherwise kernel will dump stacks, and the request
     function fail.

Documentation/cachetlb.txt

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 This document describes the cache/tlb flushing interfaces called
 by the Linux VM subsystem.  It enumerates over each interface,
-describes it's intended purpose, and what side effect is expected
+describes its intended purpose, and what side effect is expected
 after the interface is invoked.
 
 The side effects described below are stated for a uniprocessor
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ require a whole different set of interfaces to handle properly.
 The biggest problem is that of virtual aliasing in the data cache
 of a processor.
 
-Is your port susceptible to virtual aliasing in it's D-cache?
+Is your port susceptible to virtual aliasing in its D-cache?
 Well, if your D-cache is virtually indexed, is larger in size than
 PAGE_SIZE, and does not prevent multiple cache lines for the same
 physical address from existing at once, you have this problem.
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ one way to solve this (in particular SPARC_FLAG_MMAPSHARED).
 Next, you have to solve the D-cache aliasing issue for all
 other cases.  Please keep in mind that fact that, for a given page
 mapped into some user address space, there is always at least one more
-mapping, that of the kernel in it's linear mapping starting at
+mapping, that of the kernel in its linear mapping starting at
 PAGE_OFFSET.  So immediately, once the first user maps a given
 physical page into its address space, by implication the D-cache
 aliasing problem has the potential to exist since the kernel already

Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt

@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
 	  we have to check if OLDPAGE/NEWPAGE is a valid page after commit().
 
 8. LRU
-        Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, it's handling is under global
+        Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, its handling is under global
 	VM's control (means that it's handled under global zone->lru_lock).
 	Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's
 	list management functions under zone->lru_lock().

Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt

@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ some of the pages cached in the cgroup (page cache pages).
 
 4.2 Task migration
 
-When a task migrates from one cgroup to another, it's charge is not
+When a task migrates from one cgroup to another, its charge is not
 carried forward by default. The pages allocated from the original cgroup still
 remain charged to it, the charge is dropped when the page is freed or
 reclaimed.

Documentation/connector/connector.txt

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);
  int gfp_mask			- GFP mask.
 
  Note: When registering new callback user, connector core assigns
- netlink group to the user which is equal to it's id.idx.
+ netlink group to the user which is equal to its id.idx.
 
 /*****************************************/
 Protocol description.

Documentation/dvb/ci.txt

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ This application requires the following to function properly as of now.
 
 * Cards that fall in this category
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-At present the cards that fall in this category are the Twinhan and it's
+At present the cards that fall in this category are the Twinhan and its
 clones, these cards are available as VVMER, Tomato, Hercules, Orange and
 so on.
 

Documentation/dvb/contributors.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions:
 
 Michael Hunold <[email protected]>
-  for the initial saa7146 driver and it's recent overhaul
+  for the initial saa7146 driver and its recent overhaul
 
 Christian Theiss
   for his work on the initial Linux DVB driver

Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ found to be inadequate, in this case. The Generic Netlink system was
 used for this as raw Netlink would lead to a significant increase in
 complexity. There's no question that the Generic Netlink system is an
 elegant solution for common case ioctl functions but it's not a complete
-replacement probably because it's primary purpose in life is to be a
+replacement probably because its primary purpose in life is to be a
 message bus implementation rather than specifically an ioctl replacement.
 While it would be possible to work around this there is one concern
 that lead to the decision to not use it. This is that the autofs

Documentation/filesystems/ceph.txt

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Mount Options
 	Specify the IP and/or port the client should bind to locally.
 	There is normally not much reason to do this.  If the IP is not
 	specified, the client's IP address is determined by looking at the
-	address it's connection to the monitor originates from.
+	address its connection to the monitor originates from.
 
   wsize=X
 	Specify the maximum write size in bytes.  By default there is no

Documentation/filesystems/dlmfs.txt

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ You'll want to start heartbeating on a volume which all the nodes in
 your lockspace can access. The easiest way to do this is via
 ocfs2_hb_ctl (distributed with ocfs2-tools). Right now it requires
 that an OCFS2 file system be in place so that it can automatically
-find it's heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat
+find its heartbeat area, though it will eventually support heartbeat
 against raw disks.
 
 Please see the ocfs2_hb_ctl and mkfs.ocfs2 manual pages distributed

Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.txt

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ flags, it will return EBADR and the contents of fm_flags will contain
 the set of flags which caused the error. If the kernel is compatible
 with all flags passed, the contents of fm_flags will be unmodified.
 It is up to userspace to determine whether rejection of a particular
-flag is fatal to it's operation. This scheme is intended to allow the
+flag is fatal to its operation. This scheme is intended to allow the
 fiemap interface to grow in the future but without losing
 compatibility with old software.
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If this flag is set, the kernel will sync the file before mapping extents.
 
 * FIEMAP_FLAG_XATTR
 If this flag is set, the extents returned will describe the inodes
-extended attribute lookup tree, instead of it's data tree.
+extended attribute lookup tree, instead of its data tree.
 
 
 Extent Mapping
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ struct fiemap_extent {
 };
 
 All offsets and lengths are in bytes and mirror those on disk.  It is valid
-for an extents logical offset to start before the request or it's logical
+for an extents logical offset to start before the request or its logical
 length to extend past the request.  Unless FIEMAP_EXTENT_NOT_ALIGNED is
 returned, fe_logical, fe_physical, and fe_length will be aligned to the
 block size of the file system.  With the exception of extents flagged as
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ been allocated for the file yet.
 
 * FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC
   - This will also set FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN.
-Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, it's
+Delayed allocation - while there is data for this extent, its
 physical location has not been allocated yet.
 
 * FIEMAP_EXTENT_ENCODED
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Data is located within a meta data block.
 Data is packed into a block with data from other files.
 
 * FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNWRITTEN
-Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but it's data has not been
+Unwritten extent - the extent is allocated but its data has not been
 initialized.  This indicates the extent's data will be all zero if read
 through the filesystem but the contents are undefined if read directly from
 the device.
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ VFS -> File System Implementation
 
 File systems wishing to support fiemap must implement a ->fiemap callback on
 their inode_operations structure. The fs ->fiemap call is responsible for
-defining it's set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on
+defining its set of supported fiemap flags, and calling a helper function on
 each discovered extent:
 
 struct inode_operations {

Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Mount options
 'default_permissions'
 
   By default FUSE doesn't check file access permissions, the
-  filesystem is free to implement it's access policy or leave it to
+  filesystem is free to implement its access policy or leave it to
   the underlying file access mechanism (e.g. in case of network
   filesystems).  This option enables permission checking, restricting
   access based on file mode.  It is usually useful together with the
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ or may honor them by sending a reply to the _original_ request, with
 the error set to EINTR.
 
 It is also possible that there's a race between processing the
-original request and it's INTERRUPT request.  There are two possibilities:
+original request and its INTERRUPT request.  There are two possibilities:
 
   1) The INTERRUPT request is processed before the original request is
      processed

Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ to analyze or change OS2SYS.INI.
 Codepages
 
 HPFS can contain several uppercasing tables for several codepages and each
-file has a pointer to codepage it's name is in. However OS/2 was created in
+file has a pointer to codepage its name is in. However OS/2 was created in
 America where people don't care much about codepages and so multiple codepages
 support is quite buggy. I have Czech OS/2 working in codepage 852 on my disk.
 Once I booted English OS/2 working in cp 850 and I created a file on my 852

Documentation/filesystems/nfs/rpc-cache.txt

@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ failed lookup meant a definite 'no'.
 request/response format
 -----------------------
 
-While each cache is free to use it's own format for requests
+While each cache is free to use its own format for requests
 and responses over channel, the following is recommended as
 appropriate and support routines are available to help:
 Each request or response record should be printable ASCII

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ your system and how much traffic was routed over those devices:
   ...] 1375103    17405    0    0    0     0       0          0 
   ...] 1703981     5535    0    0    0     3       0          0 
 
-In addition, each Channel Bond interface has it's own directory.  For
+In addition, each Channel Bond interface has its own directory.  For
 example, the bond0 device will have a directory called /proc/net/bond0/.
 It will contain information that is specific to that bond, such as the
 current slaves of the bond, the link status of the slaves, and how
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ been accounted as having caused 1MB of write.
 In other words: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen,
 by truncating pagecache. A task can cause "negative" IO too. If this task
 truncates some dirty pagecache, some IO which another task has been accounted
-for (in it's write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that
+for (in its write_bytes) will not be happening. We _could_ just subtract that
 from the truncating task's write_bytes, but there is information loss in doing
 that.
 

Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ protocol used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT.
 Smbfs was inspired by Samba, the program written by Andrew Tridgell
 that turns any Unix host into a file server for DOS or Windows clients.
 
-Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for it's operation. For
+Smbfs is a SMB client, but uses parts of samba for its operation. For
 more info on samba, including documentation, please go to
 http://www.samba.org/ and then on to your nearest mirror.

Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ structure (this is the kernel-side implementation of file
 descriptors). The freshly allocated file structure is initialized with
 a pointer to the dentry and a set of file operation member functions.
 These are taken from the inode data. The open() file method is then
-called so the specific filesystem implementation can do it's work. You
+called so the specific filesystem implementation can do its work. You
 can see that this is another switch performed by the VFS. The file
 structure is placed into the file descriptor table for the process.
 

Documentation/hwmon/lm85

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ temperature configuration points:
 
 There are three PWM outputs. The LM85 datasheet suggests that the
 pwm3 output control both fan3 and fan4. Each PWM can be individually
-configured and assigned to a zone for it's control value. Each PWM can be
+configured and assigned to a zone for its control value. Each PWM can be
 configured individually according to the following options.
 
 * pwm#_auto_pwm_min - this specifies the PWM value for temp#_auto_temp_off

Documentation/input/joystick.txt

@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ for the port of the SoundFusion is supported by the cs461x.c module.
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   The Live! has a special PCI gameport, which, although it doesn't provide
 any "Enhanced" stuff like 4DWave and friends, is quite a bit faster than
-it's ISA counterparts. It also requires special support, hence the
+its ISA counterparts. It also requires special support, hence the
 emu10k1-gp.c module for it instead of the normal ns558.c one.
 
 3.15 SoundBlaster 64 and 128 - ES1370 and ES1371, ESS Solo1 and S3 SonicVibes

Documentation/intel_txt.txt

@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ o  Tboot then applies an (optional) user-defined launch policy to
 o  Tboot adjusts the e820 table provided by the bootloader to reserve
    its own location in memory as well as to reserve certain other
    TXT-related regions.
-o  As part of it's launch, tboot DMA protects all of RAM (using the
+o  As part of its launch, tboot DMA protects all of RAM (using the
    VT-d PMRs).  Thus, the kernel must be booted with 'intel_iommu=on'
    in order to remove this blanket protection and use VT-d's
    page-level protection.

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Expressions are listed in decreasing order of precedence.
 (7) Returns the result of max(/expr/, /expr/).
 
 An expression can have a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2
-respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when it's
+respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when its
 expression evaluates to 'm' or 'y'.
 
 There are two types of symbols: constant and non-constant symbols.