Re: [PATCH 04/14] perf: fix typos in comments
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 09:13:08 EST
On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 12:24:21PM +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
> misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments, no code
> changes.
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next, for v7.4.
- Arnaldo
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
> tools/perf/trace/beauty/syscalltbl.sh | 2 +-
> tools/perf/ui/hist.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> index c3c7f1f85c53..de86901b178b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
> /*
> * strtoul: Go from a string to a value, i.e. for msr: MSR_FS_BASE to 0xc0000100
> *
> - * We have to explicitely mark the direction of the flow of data, if from the
> + * We have to explicitly mark the direction of the flow of data, if from the
> * kernel to user space or the other way around, since the BPF collector we
> * have so far copies only from user to kernel space, mark the arguments that
> * go that direction, so that we don´t end up collecting the previous contents
> diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> index bd87262f2e34..ee2203d60643 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct fstrim_range {
> * We include a length field because some filesystems (vfat) have an identifier
> * that we do want to expose as a UUID, but doesn't have the standard length.
> *
> - * We use a fixed size buffer beacuse this interface will, by fiat, never
> + * We use a fixed size buffer because this interface will, by fiat, never
> * support "UUIDs" longer than 16 bytes; we don't want to force all downstream
> * users to have to deal with that.
> */
> diff --git a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/syscalltbl.sh b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/syscalltbl.sh
> index 1199618dc178..e70a8c79e019 100755
> --- a/tools/perf/trace/beauty/syscalltbl.sh
> +++ b/tools/perf/trace/beauty/syscalltbl.sh
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ build_tables() {
>
> echo "static const uint16_t syscall_sorted_names_${e_machine}[] = {" >> "$outfile"
>
> - # When sorting by name, add a suffix of 0s upto 20 characters so that
> + # When sorting by name, add a suffix of 0s up to 20 characters so that
> # system calls that differ with a numerical suffix don't sort before
> # those without. This default behavior of sort differs from that of
> # strcmp used at runtime. Use sed to strip the trailing 0s suffix
> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
> index e58327595d37..dcc535cc991c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c
> @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ static int hpp__header_mem_stat_fn(struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt, struct perf_hpp *hp
> int left, right;
>
> len = 0;
> - /* update fmt->len for acutally used columns only */
> + /* update fmt->len for actually used columns only */
> for (int i = 0; i < MEM_STAT_LEN; i++) {
> if (hists->mem_stat_total[mem_stat_idx].entries[i])
> len += MEM_STAT_PRINT_LEN;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> index fa08d09b80f7..c2a0a5cc4af9 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h
> @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ struct cyc_hist {
> /**
> * struct annotated_source - symbols with hits have this attached as in annotation
> *
> - * @source: List head for annotated_line (embeded in disasm_line).
> + * @source: List head for annotated_line (embedded in disasm_line).
> * @histograms: Array of symbol histograms per event to maintain the total number
> * of samples and period.
> * @nr_histograms: This may not be the same as evsel->evlist->core.nr_entries if