diff -r d2c32004414f -r 196cfce9e5aa hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Tue Feb 11 10:05:02 2014 -0800
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp	Thu Feb 13 17:57:27 2014 +0100
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
           "Force NUMA optimizations on single-node/UMA systems")            \
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   product(uintx, NUMAChunkResizeWeight, 20,                                 \
-          "Percentage (0-100) used to weigh the current sample when "       \
+          "Percentage (0-100) used to weight the current sample when "      \
           "computing exponentially decaying average for "                   \
           "AdaptiveNUMAChunkSizing")                                        \
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@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@
           "allocation")                                                     \
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   product(uintx, PLABWeight, 75,                                            \
-          "Percentage (0-100) used to weigh the current sample when "       \
+          "Percentage (0-100) used to weight the current sample when "      \
           "computing exponentially decaying average for ResizePLAB")        \
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   product(bool, ResizePLAB, true,                                           \
@@ -1614,11 +1614,11 @@
           "is shifted to the right within the period between young GCs")    \
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   product(uintx, CMSExpAvgFactor, 50,                                       \
-          "Percentage (0-100) used to weigh the current sample when "       \
+          "Percentage (0-100) used to weight the current sample when "      \
           "computing exponential averages for CMS statistics")              \
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   product(uintx, CMS_FLSWeight, 75,                                         \
-          "Percentage (0-100) used to weigh the current sample when "       \
+          "Percentage (0-100) used to weight the current sample when "      \
           "computing exponentially decaying averages for CMS FLS "          \
           "statistics")                                                     \
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@@ -1730,19 +1730,15 @@
           "to simulate overflow; a smaller number increases frequency")     \
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   product(uintx, CMSMaxAbortablePrecleanLoops, 0,                           \
-          "(Temporary, subject to experimentation) "                        \
           "Maximum number of abortable preclean iterations, if > 0")        \
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   product(intx, CMSMaxAbortablePrecleanTime, 5000,                          \
-          "(Temporary, subject to experimentation) "                        \
           "Maximum time in abortable preclean (in milliseconds)")           \
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   product(uintx, CMSAbortablePrecleanMinWorkPerIteration, 100,              \
-          "(Temporary, subject to experimentation) "                        \
           "Nominal minimum work per abortable preclean iteration")          \
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   manageable(intx, CMSAbortablePrecleanWaitMillis, 100,                     \
-          "(Temporary, subject to experimentation) "                        \
           "Time that we sleep between iterations when not given "           \
           "enough work per iteration")                                      \
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@@ -1958,13 +1954,13 @@
           "(other young collectors)")                                       \
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   develop(uintx, PromotionFailureALotInterval, 5,                           \
-          "Total collections between promotion failures alot")              \
+          "Total collections between promotion failures a lot")             \
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   experimental(uintx, WorkStealingSleepMillis, 1,                           \
           "Sleep time when sleep is used for yields")                       \
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   experimental(uintx, WorkStealingYieldsBeforeSleep, 5000,                  \
-          "Number of yields before a sleep is done during workstealing")    \
+          "Number of yields before a sleep is done during work stealing")   \
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   experimental(uintx, WorkStealingHardSpins, 4096,                          \
           "Number of iterations in a spin loop between checks on "          \
@@ -2042,7 +2038,7 @@
           "size; deprecated: to be renamed to MaxRAMFraction")              \
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   product(uintx, MinRAMFraction, 2,                                         \
-          "Minimum fraction (1/n) of real memory used for maxmimum heap "   \
+          "Minimum fraction (1/n) of real memory used for maximum heap "    \
           "size on systems with small physical memory size")                \
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   product(uintx, InitialRAMFraction, 64,                                    \