[PATCH] x86: fix typos in comments
From: Hemanth Selam
Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 08:26:21 EST
Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments, no code
changes.
Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +-
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 1585ec804066..79bfd945e5c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ struct kvm_nested_state {
} hdr;
/*
- * Define data region as 0 bytes to preserve backwards-compatability
+ * Define data region as 0 bytes to preserve backwards-compatibility
* to old definition of kvm_nested_state in order to avoid changing
* KVM_{GET,PUT}_NESTED_STATE ioctl values.
*/
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index e1f3cea14765..d48615a1a275 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -2699,7 +2699,7 @@ void kvm_apic_write_nodecode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 offset)
* virtual APIC state, but KVM needs to conditionally modify the value
* in certain cases, e.g. to clear the ICR busy bit. The cost of extra
* conditional branches is likely a wash relative to the cost of the
- * maybe-unecessary write, and both are in the noise anyways.
+ * maybe-unnecessary write, and both are in the noise anyways.
*/
if (apic_x2apic_mode(apic) && offset == APIC_ICR)
WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_x2apic_icr_write(apic, kvm_x2apic_icr_read(apic)));
diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 03bfc92864b6..b9d3ce31a9ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
#define KVM_PFN_ERR_NEEDS_IO (KVM_PFN_ERR_MASK + 4)
/*
- * error pfns indicate that the gfn is in slot but faild to
+ * error pfns indicate that the gfn is in slot but failed to
* translate it to pfn on host.
*/
static inline bool is_error_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
@@ -2461,7 +2461,7 @@ void kvm_arch_update_irqfd_routing(struct kvm_kernel_irqfd *irqfd,
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS */
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_INVALID_WAKEUPS
-/* If we wakeup during the poll time, was it a sucessful poll? */
+/* If we wakeup during the poll time, was it a successful poll? */
static inline bool vcpu_valid_wakeup(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
return vcpu->valid_wakeup;
--
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