diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c
index 58af8e73738b..04dbf1662523 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static u32 __init allocate_aperture(void)
 
 	/* 
 	 * Aperture has to be naturally aligned. This means an 2GB aperture won't
-	 * have much chances to find a place in the lower 4GB of memory.
+	 * have much chance of finding a place in the lower 4GB of memory.
 	 * Unfortunately we cannot move it up because that would make the
 	 * IOMMU useless.
 	 */
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
index 692e9b579743..63d9b037afc6 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ void __cpuinit setup_local_APIC (void)
 	value |= APIC_SPIV_APIC_ENABLED;
 
 	/*
-	 * Some unknown Intel IO/APIC (or APIC) errata is biting us with
+	 * Some unknown Intel IO/APIC (or APIC) errata are biting us with
 	 * certain networking cards. If high frequency interrupts are
 	 * happening on a particular IOAPIC pin, plus the IOAPIC routing
 	 * entry is masked/unmasked at a high rate as well then sooner or
@@ -950,7 +950,7 @@ void smp_local_timer_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 * We take the 'long' return path, and there every subsystem
 	 * grabs the appropriate locks (kernel lock/ irq lock).
 	 *
-	 * we might want to decouple profiling from the 'long path',
+	 * We might want to decouple profiling from the 'long path',
 	 * and do the profiling totally in assembly.
 	 *
 	 * Currently this isn't too much of an issue (performance wise),
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
index fc57a139123e..7d7a9e75f70c 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/crash.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static void crash_save_this_cpu(struct pt_regs *regs, int cpu)
 	 * for the data I pass, and I need tags
 	 * on the data to indicate what information I have
 	 * squirrelled away.  ELF notes happen to provide
-	 * all of that that no need to invent something new.
+	 * all of that, no need to invent something new.
 	 */
 
 	buf = (u32*)per_cpu_ptr(crash_notes, cpu);