perf tools: Fix various typos in comments

Fix ~124 single-word typos and a few spelling errors in the perf tooling code,
accumulated over the years.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-buildid-cache.txt

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -u::
 --update=::
 	Update specified file of the cache. Note that this doesn't remove
-	older entires since those may be still needed for annotating old
+	older entries since those may be still needed for annotating old
 	(or remote) perf.data. Only if there is already a cache which has
 	exactly same build-id, that is replaced by new one. It can be used
 	to update kallsyms and kernel dso to vmlinux in order to support

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt

@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	but probably we'll make the default not to show the switch-on/off events
         on the --group mode and if there is only one event besides the off/on ones,
 	go straight to the histogram browser, just like 'perf report' with no events
-	explicitely specified does.
+	explicitly specified does.
 
 --itrace::
 	Options for decoding instruction tracing data. The options are:

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt

@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
 	but probably we'll make the default not to show the switch-on/off events
         on the --group mode and if there is only one event besides the off/on ones,
 	go straight to the histogram browser, just like 'perf top' with no events
-	explicitely specified does.
+	explicitly specified does.
 
 --stitch-lbr::
 	Show callgraph with stitched LBRs, which may have more complete

tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c

@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int cs_etm_recording_options(struct auxtrace_record *itr,
 			opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages = roundup_pow_of_two(sz);
 		}
 
-		/* Snapshost size can't be bigger than the auxtrace area */
+		/* Snapshot size can't be bigger than the auxtrace area */
 		if (opts->auxtrace_snapshot_size >
 				opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages * (size_t)page_size) {
 			pr_err("Snapshot size %zu must not be greater than AUX area tracing mmap size %zu\n",

tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/machine.c

@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
 #include "debug.h"
 #include "symbol.h"
 
-/* On arm64, kernel text segment start at high memory address,
+/* On arm64, kernel text segment starts at high memory address,
  * for example 0xffff 0000 8xxx xxxx. Modules start at a low memory
- * address, like 0xffff 0000 00ax xxxx. When only samll amount of
+ * address, like 0xffff 0000 00ax xxxx. When only small amount of
  * memory is used by modules, gap between end of module's text segment
- * and start of kernel text segment may be reach 2G.
+ * and start of kernel text segment may reach 2G.
  * Therefore do not fill this gap and do not assign it to the kernel dso map.
  */
 

tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/perf_regs.c

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int arch_sdt_arg_parse_op(char *old_op, char **new_op)
 		/* [sp], [sp, NUM] or [sp,NUM] */
 		new_len = 7;	/* + ( % s p ) NULL */
 
-		/* If the arugment is [sp], need to fill offset '0' */
+		/* If the argument is [sp], need to fill offset '0' */
 		if (rm[2].rm_so == -1)
 			new_len += 1;
 		else

tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int cpu_isa_init(struct perf_kvm_stat *kvm, const char *cpuid __maybe_unused)
 }
 
 /*
- * Incase of powerpc architecture, pmu registers are programmable
+ * In case of powerpc architecture, pmu registers are programmable
  * by guest kernel. So monitoring guest via host may not provide
  * valid samples with default 'cycles' event. It is better to use
  * 'trace_imc/trace_cycles' event for guest profiling, since it

tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/utils_header.h

@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 
 #define SPRN_PVR        0x11F   /* Processor Version Register */
 #define PVR_VER(pvr)    (((pvr) >>  16) & 0xFFFF) /* Version field */
-#define PVR_REV(pvr)    (((pvr) >>   0) & 0xFFFF) /* Revison field */
+#define PVR_REV(pvr)    (((pvr) >>   0) & 0xFFFF) /* Revision field */
 
 #endif /* __PERF_UTIL_HEADER_H */

tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/bp-modify.c

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static int bp_modify1(void)
 	/*
 	 * The parent does following steps:
 	 *  - creates a new breakpoint (id 0) for bp_2 function
-	 *  - changes that breakponit to bp_1 function
+	 *  - changes that breakpoint to bp_1 function
 	 *  - waits for the breakpoint to hit and checks
 	 *    it has proper rip of bp_1 function
 	 *  - detaches the child

tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int sdt_init_op_regex(void)
 /*
  * Max x86 register name length is 5(ex: %r15d). So, 6th char
  * should always contain NULL. This helps to find register name
- * length using strlen, insted of maintaing one more variable.
+ * length using strlen, instead of maintaining one more variable.
  */
 #define SDT_REG_NAME_SIZE  6
 
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int arch_sdt_arg_parse_op(char *old_op, char **new_op)
 	 * and displacement 0 (Both sign and displacement 0 are
 	 * optional so it may be empty). Use one more character
 	 * to hold last NULL so that strlen can be used to find
-	 * prefix length, instead of maintaing one more variable.
+	 * prefix length, instead of maintaining one more variable.
 	 */
 	char prefix[3] = {0};
 

tools/perf/bench/epoll-wait.c

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * While the second model, enabled via --multiq option, uses multiple
  * queueing (which refers to one epoll instance per worker). For example,
  * short lived tcp connections in a high throughput httpd server will
- * ditribute the accept()'ing  connections across CPUs. In this case each
+ * distribute the accept()'ing  connections across CPUs. In this case each
  * worker does a limited  amount of processing.
  *
  *             [queue A]  ---> [worker]
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static void *workerfn(void *arg)
 
 	do {
 		/*
-		 * Block undefinitely waiting for the IN event.
+		 * Block indefinitely waiting for the IN event.
 		 * In order to stress the epoll_wait(2) syscall,
 		 * call it event per event, instead of a larger
 		 * batch (max)limit.

tools/perf/bench/numa.c

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #endif
 
 /*
- * Regular printout to the terminal, supressed if -q is specified:
+ * Regular printout to the terminal, suppressed if -q is specified:
  */
 #define tprintf(x...) do { if (g && g->p.show_details >= 0) printf(x); } while (0)
 

tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c

@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int evsel__add_sample(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample,
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * XXX filtered samples can still have branch entires pointing into our
+	 * XXX filtered samples can still have branch entries pointing into our
 	 * symbol and are missed.
 	 */
 	process_branch_stack(sample->branch_stack, al, sample);

tools/perf/builtin-diff.c

@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ static int ui_init(void)
 	data__for_each_file(i, d) {
 
 		/*
-		 * Baseline or compute realted columns:
+		 * Baseline or compute related columns:
 		 *
 		 *   PERF_HPP_DIFF__BASELINE
 		 *   PERF_HPP_DIFF__DELTA

tools/perf/builtin-lock.c

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ struct lock_stat {
 
 	/*
 	 * FIXME: evsel__intval() returns u64,
-	 * so address of lockdep_map should be dealed as 64bit.
+	 * so address of lockdep_map should be treated as 64bit.
 	 * Is there more better solution?
 	 */
 	void			*addr;		/* address of lockdep_map, used as ID */

tools/perf/builtin-sched.c

@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@ static int perf_sched__process_fork_event(struct perf_tool *tool,
 {
 	struct perf_sched *sched = container_of(tool, struct perf_sched, tool);
 
-	/* run the fork event through the perf machineruy */
+	/* run the fork event through the perf machinery */
 	perf_event__process_fork(tool, event, sample, machine);
 
 	/* and then run additional processing needed for this command */

tools/perf/builtin-script.c

@@ -2486,7 +2486,7 @@ static int perf_script__fopen_per_event_dump(struct perf_script *script)
 		/*
 		 * Already setup? I.e. we may be called twice in cases like
 		 * Intel PT, one for the intel_pt// and dummy events, then
-		 * for the evsels syntheized from the auxtrace info.
+		 * for the evsels synthesized from the auxtrace info.
 		 *
 		 * Ses perf_script__process_auxtrace_info.
 		 */
@@ -3083,7 +3083,7 @@ static int list_available_scripts(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused,
  *
  * Fixme: All existing "xxx-record" are all in good formats "-e event ",
  * which is covered well now. And new parsing code should be added to
- * cover the future complexing formats like event groups etc.
+ * cover the future complex formats like event groups etc.
  */
 static int check_ev_match(char *dir_name, char *scriptname,
 			struct perf_session *session)

tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

@@ -1705,7 +1705,7 @@ static int add_default_attributes(void)
 	bzero(&errinfo, sizeof(errinfo));
 	if (transaction_run) {
 		/* Handle -T as -M transaction. Once platform specific metrics
-		 * support has been added to the json files, all archictures
+		 * support has been added to the json files, all architectures
 		 * will use this approach. To determine transaction support
 		 * on an architecture test for such a metric name.
 		 */
@@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
 		/*
 		 * We synthesize the kernel mmap record just so that older tools
 		 * don't emit warnings about not being able to resolve symbols
-		 * due to /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict settings and instear provide
+		 * due to /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict settings and instead provide
 		 * a saner message about no samples being in the perf.data file.
 		 *
 		 * This also serves to suppress a warning about f_header.data.size == 0

tools/perf/builtin-top.c

@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
 	if (status) {
 		/*
 		 * Some arches do not provide a get_cpuid(), so just use pr_debug, otherwise
-		 * warn the user explicitely.
+		 * warn the user explicitly.
 		 */
 		eprintf(status == ENOSYS ? 1 : 0, verbose,
 			"Couldn't read the cpuid for this machine: %s\n",

tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c

@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ int sys_enter(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
 	/*
 	 * Jump to syscall specific augmenter, even if the default one,
 	 * "!raw_syscalls:unaugmented" that will just return 1 to return the
-	 * unagmented tracepoint payload.
+	 * unaugmented tracepoint payload.
 	 */
 	bpf_tail_call(args, &syscalls_sys_enter, augmented_args->args.syscall_nr);
 
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ int sys_exit(struct syscall_exit_args *args)
 	/*
 	 * Jump to syscall specific return augmenter, even if the default one,
 	 * "!raw_syscalls:unaugmented" that will just return 1 to return the
-	 * unagmented tracepoint payload.
+	 * unaugmented tracepoint payload.
 	 */
 	bpf_tail_call(args, &syscalls_sys_exit, exit_args.syscall_nr);
 	/*

tools/perf/jvmti/jvmti_agent.c

@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ jvmti_write_code(void *agent, char const *sym,
 		rec.p.total_size += size;
 
 	/*
-	 * If JVM is multi-threaded, nultiple concurrent calls to agent
+	 * If JVM is multi-threaded, multiple concurrent calls to agent
 	 * may be possible, so protect file writes
 	 */
 	flockfile(fp);
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ jvmti_write_debug_info(void *agent, uint64_t code,
 	rec.p.total_size = size;
 
 	/*
-	 * If JVM is multi-threaded, nultiple concurrent calls to agent
+	 * If JVM is multi-threaded, multiple concurrent calls to agent
 	 * may be possible, so protect file writes
 	 */
 	flockfile(fp);

tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power8/metrics.json

@@ -885,37 +885,37 @@
         "MetricName": "flush_rate_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (11 to 14) as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (11 to 14) as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_11_14_ENTRIES / ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_11to14_slots_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (15 to 17) as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (15 to 17) as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_15_17_ENTRIES / ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_15to17_slots_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization 18+ as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization 18+ as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_18_ENTRIES / ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_18plus_slots_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (1 to 2) as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (1 to 2) as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_1_2_ENTRIES /  ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_1to2_slots_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (3 to 6) as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (3 to 6) as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_3_6_ENTRIES / ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_3to6_slots_percent"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (7 to 10) as a % of cycles this thread had atleast 1 slot valid",
+        "BriefDescription": "GCT slot utilization (7 to 10) as a % of cycles this thread had at least 1 slot valid",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_GCT_UTIL_7_10_ENTRIES / ( PM_RUN_CYC - PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC) * 100",
         "MetricGroup": "general",
         "MetricName": "gct_util_7to10_slots_percent"

tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/metrics.json

@@ -1691,7 +1691,7 @@
         "MetricName": "custom_secs"
     },
     {
-        "BriefDescription": "Percentage Cycles atleast one instruction dispatched",
+        "BriefDescription": "Percentage Cycles at least one instruction dispatched",
         "MetricExpr": "PM_1PLUS_PPC_DISP / PM_CYC * 100",
         "MetricName": "cycles_atleast_one_inst_dispatched_percent"
     },

tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c

@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ static int process_one_file(const char *fpath, const struct stat *sb,
 	 * and directory tree could result in build failure due to table
 	 * names not being found.
 	 *
-	 * Atleast for now, be strict with processing JSON file names.
+	 * At least for now, be strict with processing JSON file names.
 	 * i.e. if JSON file name cannot be mapped to C-style table name,
 	 * fail.
 	 */

tools/perf/scripts/python/netdev-times.py

@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ def handle_irq_softirq_exit(event_info):
 		return
 	rec_data = {'sirq_ent_t':sirq_ent_t, 'sirq_ext_t':time,
 			'irq_list':irq_list, 'event_list':event_list}
-	# merge information realted to a NET_RX softirq
+	# merge information related to a NET_RX softirq
 	receive_hunk_list.append(rec_data)
 
 def handle_napi_poll(event_info):

tools/perf/tests/bp_signal.c

@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ int test__bp_signal(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused
 	 *
 	 * The test case check following error conditions:
 	 * - we get stuck in signal handler because of debug
-	 *   exception being triggered receursively due to
+	 *   exception being triggered recursively due to
 	 *   the wrong RF EFLAG management
 	 *
 	 * - we never trigger the sig_handler breakpoint due
-	 *   to the rong RF EFLAG management
+	 *   to the wrong RF EFLAG management
 	 *
 	 */
 
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ int test__bp_signal(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused
 	ioctl(fd3, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
 
 	/*
-	 * Kick off the test by trigering 'fd1'
+	 * Kick off the test by triggering 'fd1'
 	 * breakpoint.
 	 */
 	test_function();

tools/perf/tests/code-reading.c

@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ static int do_test_code_reading(bool try_kcore)
 				/*
 				 * Both cpus and threads are now owned by evlist
 				 * and will be freed by following perf_evlist__set_maps
-				 * call. Getting refference to keep them alive.
+				 * call. Getting reference to keep them alive.
 				 */
 				perf_cpu_map__get(cpus);
 				perf_thread_map__get(threads);

tools/perf/tests/hists_cumulate.c

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static struct sample fake_samples[] = {
 };
 
 /*
- * Will be casted to struct ip_callchain which has all 64 bit entries
+ * Will be cast to struct ip_callchain which has all 64 bit entries
  * of nr and ips[].
  */
 static u64 fake_callchains[][10] = {
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static int test1(struct evsel *evsel, struct machine *machine)
 	return err;
 }
 
-/* callcain + NO children */
+/* callchain + NO children */
 static int test2(struct evsel *evsel, struct machine *machine)
 {
 	int err;

tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #if defined(__s390x__)
 /* Return true if kvm module is available and loaded. Test this
- * and retun success when trace point kvm_s390_create_vm
+ * and return success when trace point kvm_s390_create_vm
  * exists. Otherwise this test always fails.
  */
 static bool kvm_s390_create_vm_valid(void)

tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c

@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ static int __compute_metric(const char *name, struct value *vals,
 		*ratio2 = compute_single(&metric_events, evlist, &st, name2);
 
 out:
-	/* ... clenup. */
+	/* ... cleanup. */
 	metricgroup__rblist_exit(&metric_events);
 	runtime_stat__exit(&st);
 	evlist__free_stats(evlist);

tools/perf/tests/topology.c

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int check_cpu_topology(char *path, struct perf_cpu_map *map)
 	 *   CPU 1 is on core_id 1 and physical_package_id 3
 	 *
 	 *   Core_id and physical_package_id are platform and architecture
-	 *   dependend and might have higher numbers than the CPU id.
+	 *   dependent and might have higher numbers than the CPU id.
 	 *   This actually depends on the configuration.
 	 *
 	 *  In this case process_cpu_topology() prints error message: