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[PATCH 1/2] ARM: fix typos in comments

From: Hemanth Selam <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-04 11:25:41
Also in: lkml, xen-devel
Subsystem: arm port, the rest, xen hypervisor arm · Maintainers: Russell King, Linus Torvalds, Stefano Stabellini

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 <redacted>
---
 arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S     | 2 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h      | 2 +-
 arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c           | 2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c            | 2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/context.c               | 4 ++--
 arch/arm/probes/decode.h            | 2 +-
 arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c   | 4 ++--
 arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c | 2 +-
 arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S            | 4 ++--
 9 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
index 9f406e9c0ea6..e117f2b4dea9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ call_cache_fn:	adr	r12, proc_types
 		/*
 		 * On v7-M the processor id is located in the V7M_SCB_CPUID
 		 * register, but as cache handling is IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED on
-		 * v7-M (if existant at all) we just return early here.
+		 * v7-M (if existent at all) we just return early here.
 		 * If V7M_SCB_CPUID were used the cpu ID functions (i.e.
 		 * __armv7_mmu_cache_{on,off,flush}) would be selected which
 		 * use cp15 registers that are not implemented on v7-M.
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
index 1593cf3b9800..9805001f9d72 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/uaccess.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  * These two functions allow hooking accesses to userspace to increase
  * system integrity by ensuring that the kernel can not inadvertantly
  * perform such accesses (eg, via list poison values) which could then
- * be exploited for priviledge escalation.
+ * be exploited for privilege escalation.
  */
 #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN)
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c b/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
index fba1f8bb03b5..784457ac7b2b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static const struct cpuidle_ops *__init arm_cpuidle_get_ops(const char *method)
  * cpuidle_ops are tagged __initconst and will be unloaded after the init
  * process.
  *
- * Return 0 on sucess, -ENOENT if no 'enable-method' is defined, -EOPNOTSUPP if
+ * Return 0 on success, -ENOENT if no 'enable-method' is defined, -EOPNOTSUPP if
  * no cpuidle_ops is registered for the 'enable-method', or if either init or
  * suspend callback isn't defined.
  */
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
index 470867160076..0eaaf99d3d11 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/cache-l2x0.c
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ static void aurora_pa_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/*
-	 * round start and end adresses up to cache line size
+	 * round start and end addresses up to cache line size
 	 */
 	start &= ~(CACHE_LINE_SIZE - 1);
 	end = ALIGN(end, CACHE_LINE_SIZE);
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/context.c b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
index 4204ffa2d104..95d477cab0f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/context.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/context.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ void a15_erratum_get_cpumask(int this_cpu, struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_LPAE
 /*
- * With LPAE, the ASID and page tables are updated atomicly, so there is
+ * With LPAE, the ASID and page tables are updated atomically, so there is
  * no need for a reserved set of tables (the active ASID tracking prevents
  * any issues across a rollover).
  */
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ void check_and_switch_context(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	check_vmalloc_seq(mm);
 
 	/*
-	 * We cannot update the pgd and the ASID atomicly with classic
+	 * We cannot update the pgd and the ASID atomically with classic
 	 * MMU, so switch exclusively to global mappings to avoid
 	 * speculative page table walking with the wrong TTBR.
 	 */
diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/decode.h b/arch/arm/probes/decode.h
index facc889d05ee..b09c44ba1030 100644
--- a/arch/arm/probes/decode.h
+++ b/arch/arm/probes/decode.h
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ enum decode_reg_type {
 	REG_TYPE_NOPCWB,   /* No PC if load/store write-back flag also set */
 
 	/* The following types are used when the encoding for PC indicates
-	 * another instruction form. This distiction only matters for test
+	 * another instruction form. This distinction only matters for test
 	 * case coverage checks.
 	 */
 	REG_TYPE_NOPCX,	   /* Register must not be PC */
diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
index 966c6042c5ad..a3aed8c01c98 100644
--- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op, struct kprobe *or
 	 *
 	 * So the maximum forward branch should be:
 	 *   (0x007fffff << 2) = 0x01fffffc =  0x1fffffc
-	 * The maximum backword branch should be:
+	 * The maximum backward branch should be:
 	 *   (0xff800000 << 2) = 0xfe000000 = -0x2000000
 	 *
 	 * We can simply check (rel & 0xfe000003):
-	 *  if rel is positive, (rel & 0xfe000000) shoule be 0
+	 *  if rel is positive, (rel & 0xfe000000) should be 0
 	 *  if rel is negitive, (rel & 0xfe000000) should be 0xfe000000
 	 *  the last '3' is used for alignment checking.
 	 */
diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c
index 2de28088dac8..531fec3621b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c
+++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-core.c
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
  *	.byte	ARG_TYPE_END
  *	.byte	TEST_ISA	@ flags, including ISA being tested
  *	.short	50f-0f		@ offset of 'test_before'
- *	.short	2f-0f		@ offset of 'test_after2' (if relevent)
+ *	.short	2f-0f		@ offset of 'test_after2' (if relevant)
  *	.short	99f-0f		@ offset of 'test_done'
  *	@ start of test case code...
  *	0:
diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S b/arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S
index f794dac9859a..b8b6192e310e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S
+++ b/arch/arm/xen/hypercall.S
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 
 /*
  * The Xen hypercall calling convention is very similar to the ARM
- * procedure calling convention: the first paramter is passed in r0, the
+ * procedure calling convention: the first parameter is passed in r0, the
  * second in r1, the third in r2 and the fourth in r3. Considering that
- * Xen hypercalls have 5 arguments at most, the fifth paramter is passed
+ * Xen hypercalls have 5 arguments at most, the fifth parameter is passed
  * in r4, differently from the procedure calling convention of using the
  * stack for that case.
  *
-- 
2.48.1

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