diff --git a/fs/affs/bitmap.c b/fs/affs/bitmap.c
index dc5ef14..8306d53 100644
--- a/fs/affs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/affs/bitmap.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 /*
  * Allocate a block in the given allocation zone.
  * Since we have to byte-swap the bitmap on little-endian
- * machines, this is rather expensive. Therefor we will
+ * machines, this is rather expensive. Therefore we will
  * preallocate up to 16 blocks from the same word, if
  * possible. We are not doing preallocations in the
  * header zone, though.
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
index 18d7729..364fcfc 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
@@ -1393,7 +1393,7 @@
 
 /*
  * fill up all the fields in prstatus from the given task struct, except
- * registers which need to be filled up seperately.
+ * registers which need to be filled up separately.
  */
 static void fill_prstatus(struct elf_prstatus *prstatus,
 			  struct task_struct *p, long signr)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
index b44ce0a..b1d61d0 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
  * Extracts sharename form full UNC.
  * i.e. strips from UNC trailing path that is not part of share
  * name and fixup missing '\' in the begining of DFS node refferal
- * if neccessary.
+ * if necessary.
  * Returns pointer to share name on success or ERR_PTR on error.
  * Caller is responsible for freeing returned string.
  */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 941441d..0e22440 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -3886,7 +3886,7 @@
 		goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
 	}
 
-	/* collect neccessary data from referrals */
+	/* collect necessary data from referrals */
 	for (i = 0; i < *num_of_nodes; i++) {
 		char *temp;
 		int max_len;
diff --git a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
index 82c415b..12a9ec7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/move_extent.c
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@
 }
 
 /**
- * mext_check_argumants - Check whether move extent can be done
+ * mext_check_arguments - Check whether move extent can be done
  *
  * @orig_inode:		original inode
  * @donor_inode:	donor inode
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 1a822ce..ec14d19 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@
 	req->in.args[0].size = sizeof(*arg);
 	req->in.args[0].value = arg;
 	req->out.numargs = 1;
-	/* Variable length arguement used for backward compatibility
+	/* Variable length argument used for backward compatibility
 	   with interface version < 7.5.  Rest of init_out is zeroed
 	   by do_get_request(), so a short reply is not a problem */
 	req->out.argvar = 1;
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
index edfee24..0556f7f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@
 /**
  * gfs2_lm_mount - mount a locking protocol
  * @sdp: the filesystem
- * @args: mount arguements
+ * @args: mount arguments
  * @silent: if 1, don't complain if the FS isn't a GFS2 fs
  *
  * Returns: errno
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 006f9ad..57ae203 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@
 	 * the case where our storage is so fast that it is more optimal to go
 	 * ahead and force a flush and wait for the transaction to be committed
 	 * than it is to wait for an arbitrary amount of time for new writers to
-	 * join the transaction.  We acheive this by measuring how long it takes
+	 * join the transaction.  We achieve this by measuring how long it takes
 	 * to commit a transaction, and compare it with how long this
 	 * transaction has been running, and if run time < commit time then we
 	 * sleep for the delta and commit.  This greatly helps super fast disks
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index a8587e9..143d43a 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -1528,7 +1528,7 @@
 	} } while (0);
 
 /* Encode as an array of strings the string given with components
- * seperated @sep.
+ * separated @sep.
  */
 static __be32 nfsd4_encode_components(char sep, char *components,
 				   __be32 **pp, int *buflen)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
index c5e4a49..ccb9c44 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
@@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@
  * ocfs2_file_lock() and ocfs2_file_unlock() map to a single pair of
  * flock() calls. The locking approach this requires is sufficiently
  * different from all other cluster lock types that we implement a
- * seperate path to the "low-level" dlm calls. In particular:
+ * separate path to the "low-level" dlm calls. In particular:
  *
  * - No optimization of lock levels is done - we take at exactly
  *   what's been requested.
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c b/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
index d35a27f..83e9b12 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
 	if (i == -1) {
 		/*
 		 * Holes can be larger than the maximum size of an
-		 * extent, so we return their lengths in a seperate
+		 * extent, so we return their lengths in a separate
 		 * field.
 		 */
 		if (hole_len) {
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
index 65c8727..ecc04b5 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
 			return 0;	// No free blocks in this bitmap
 		}
 
-		/* search for a first zero bit -- beggining of a window */
+		/* search for a first zero bit -- beginning of a window */
 		*beg = reiserfs_find_next_zero_le_bit
 		    ((unsigned long *)(bh->b_data), boundary, *beg);