[PATCH 04/14] perf: fix typos in comments

From: Hemanth Selam

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 03:02:58 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>
---
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