diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
index 07a9c48..eee7142 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
@@ -1289,7 +1289,7 @@
  * Sparc assembly will do this to ya.
  */
 C_LABEL(cputypvar):
-        .asciz "compatability"
+        .asciz "compatibility"
 
 /* Tested on SS-5, SS-10. Probably someone at Sun applied a spell-checker. */
         .align 4
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
index 31df1aa..deb71ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@
         <title>HSM violation</title>
         <para>
         This error is indicated when STATUS value doesn't match HSM
-        requirement during issuing or excution any ATA/ATAPI command.
+        requirement during issuing or execution any ATA/ATAPI command.
         </para>
 
 	<itemizedlist>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
index b84f25e..dd03cf4 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
@@ -2023,7 +2023,7 @@
 		<entry>integer</entry>
 	      </row>
 	      <row><entry spanname="descr">Cyclic intra macroblock refresh. This is the number of continuous macroblocks
-refreshed every frame. Each frame a succesive set of macroblocks is refreshed until the cycle completes and starts from the
+refreshed every frame. Each frame a successive set of macroblocks is refreshed until the cycle completes and starts from the
 top of the frame. Applicable to H264, H263 and MPEG4 encoder.</entry>
 	      </row>
 
@@ -2183,7 +2183,7 @@
 		<entry>integer</entry>
 	      </row>
 	      <row><entry spanname="descr">The Video Buffer Verifier size in kilobytes, it is used as a limitation of frame skip.
-The VBV is defined in the standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be succesfully decoded.
+The VBV is defined in the standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be successfully decoded.
 The standard describes it as "Part of a hypothetical decoder that is conceptually connected to the
 output of the encoder. Its purpose is to provide a constraint on the variability of the data rate that an
 encoder or editing process may produce.".
@@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@
 		<entry>integer</entry>
 	      </row>
 	      <row><entry spanname="descr">The Coded Picture Buffer size in kilobytes, it is used as a limitation of frame skip.
-The CPB is defined in the H264 standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be succesfully decoded.
+The CPB is defined in the H264 standard as a mean to verify that the produced stream will be successfully decoded.
 Applicable to the H264 encoder.</entry>
 	      </row>