diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index a0c84bb..053201b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3789,7 +3789,7 @@
 
 	} else if ((msg->rsp[0] == ((IPMI_NETFN_APP_REQUEST|1) << 2))
 		   && (msg->rsp[1] == IPMI_READ_EVENT_MSG_BUFFER_CMD)) {
-		/* It's an asyncronous event. */
+		/* It's an asynchronous event. */
 		requeue = handle_read_event_rsp(intf, msg);
 	} else {
 		/* It's a response from the local BMC. */
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 32a6c7e..c9c3501 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 	/* Number of watchdog pretimeouts. */
 	SI_STAT_watchdog_pretimeouts,
 
-	/* Number of asyncronous messages received. */
+	/* Number of asynchronous messages received. */
 	SI_STAT_incoming_messages,
 
 
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/init_ohci1394_dma.c b/drivers/firewire/init_ohci1394_dma.c
index a9a347a..2cc89ce 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/init_ohci1394_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/init_ohci1394_dma.c
@@ -149,10 +149,10 @@
 	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IsoXmitIntMaskClear, 0xffffffff);
 	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IsoXmitIntEventClear, 0xffffffff);
 
-	/* Accept asyncronous transfer requests from all nodes for now */
+	/* Accept asynchronous transfer requests from all nodes for now */
 	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_AsReqFilterHiSet, 0x80000000);
 
-	/* Specify asyncronous transfer retries */
+	/* Specify asynchronous transfer retries */
 	reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_ATRetries,
 		  OHCI1394_MAX_AT_REQ_RETRIES |
 		  (OHCI1394_MAX_AT_RESP_RETRIES<<4) |
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
index 834e71d..961e439 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/ohci.c
@@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@
 	d[0].res_count = cpu_to_le16(packet->timestamp);
 
 	/*
-	 * The DMA format for asyncronous link packets is different
+	 * The DMA format for asynchronous link packets is different
 	 * from the IEEE1394 layout, so shift the fields around
 	 * accordingly.
 	 */
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
index b84a88b..c48cf6f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/eq.c
@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@
 		/* Temporary use polling for command completions */
 		mlx4_cmd_use_polling(dev);
 
-		/* Map the new eq to handle all asyncronous events */
+		/* Map the new eq to handle all asynchronous events */
 		err = mlx4_MAP_EQ(dev, get_async_ev_mask(dev), 0,
 				  priv->eq_table.eq[i].eqn);
 		if (err) {
diff --git a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/setup_protocol.h b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/setup_protocol.h
index 9d6bcc7..002c34e 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/ipwireless/setup_protocol.h
+++ b/drivers/tty/ipwireless/setup_protocol.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 	unsigned char sig_no;		/* TL_SETUP_SIGNO_CONFIG_DONE_MSG */
 } __attribute__ ((__packed__));
 
-/* Asyncronous messages */
+/* Asynchronous messages */
 struct tl_setup_open_msg {
 	unsigned char sig_no;		/* TL_SETUP_SIGNO_OPEN_MSG */
 	unsigned char port_no;
diff --git a/fs/notify/notification.c b/fs/notify/notification.c
index c887b13..48cb994 100644
--- a/fs/notify/notification.c
+++ b/fs/notify/notification.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 /*
  * Basic idea behind the notification queue: An fsnotify group (like inotify)
- * sends the userspace notification about events asyncronously some time after
+ * sends the userspace notification about events asynchronously some time after
  * the event happened.  When inotify gets an event it will need to add that
  * event to the group notify queue.  Since a single event might need to be on
  * multiple group's notification queues we can't add the event directly to each
diff --git a/include/linux/dlm.h b/include/linux/dlm.h
index 1d47dcc..d02da2c 100644
--- a/include/linux/dlm.h
+++ b/include/linux/dlm.h
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 /*
  * dlm_lock
  *
- * Make an asyncronous request to acquire or convert a lock on a named
+ * Make an asynchronous request to acquire or convert a lock on a named
  * resource.
  *
  * lockspace: context for the request
diff --git a/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h b/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
index fcb5d44..8ea3fe0 100644
--- a/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
+++ b/include/linux/ipmi_smi.h
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
 
 /*
  * The lower layer reports received messages through this interface.
- * The data_size should be zero if this is an asyncronous message.  If
+ * The data_size should be zero if this is an asynchronous message.  If
  * the lower layer gets an error sending a message, it should format
  * an error response in the message response.
  */
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 56b758a..bb81b7f 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -950,10 +950,10 @@
 			goto repeat;
 		}
 	}
-	/* drain all zone's lru pagevec, this is asyncronous... */
+	/* drain all zone's lru pagevec, this is asynchronous... */
 	lru_add_drain_all();
 	yield();
-	/* drain pcp pages , this is synchrouns. */
+	/* drain pcp pages, this is synchronous. */
 	drain_all_pages();
 	/* check again */
 	offlined_pages = check_pages_isolated(start_pfn, end_pfn);
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@
 		goto failed_removal;
 	}
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Offlined Pages %ld\n", offlined_pages);
-	/* Ok, all of our target is islaoted.
+	/* Ok, all of our target is isolated.
 	   We cannot do rollback at this point. */
 	offline_isolated_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);
 	/* reset pagetype flags and makes migrate type to be MOVABLE */
diff --git a/sound/pci/sis7019.c b/sound/pci/sis7019.c
index 51e4340..9024545 100644
--- a/sound/pci/sis7019.c
+++ b/sound/pci/sis7019.c
@@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@
 	outl(SIS_DMA_CSR_PCI_SETTINGS, io + SIS_DMA_CSR);
 
 	/* Reset the synchronization groups for all of the channels
-	 * to be asyncronous. If we start doing SPDIF or 5.1 sound, etc.
+	 * to be asynchronous. If we start doing SPDIF or 5.1 sound, etc.
 	 * we'll need to change how we handle these. Until then, we just
 	 * assign sub-mixer 0 to all playback channels, and avoid any
 	 * attenuation on the audio.