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authorTobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@gmail.com>2018-07-09 12:57:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-07-16 00:21:03 +0200
commit788faab70d5a882693286b8d5022779559c79904 (patch)
tree56a3585f55240a7a0e57520e5cc6f191f69091b5
parent26c6ccdf5c06aa83bb78518c72cb287f043db3df (diff)
downloadlinux-788faab70d5a882693286b8d5022779559c79904.tar.bz2
perf, tools: Use correct articles in comments
Some of the comments in the perf events code use articles incorrectly, using 'a' for words beginning with a vowel sound, where 'an' should be used. Signed-off-by: Tobias Tefke <tobias.tefke@tutanota.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709105715.22938-1-tobias.tefke@tutanota.com [ Fix a few more perf related 'a event' typo fixes from all around the kernel and tooling tree. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h2
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c16
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c6
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
6 files changed, 18 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 3f66fcf8ad99..19d8ab49d1bd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ static int collect_events(struct perf_event *group, int max_count,
}
/*
- * Add a event to the PMU.
+ * Add an event to the PMU.
* If all events are not already frozen, then we disable and
* re-enable the PMU in order to get hw_perf_enable to do the
* actual work of reconfiguring the PMU.
@@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@ nocheck:
}
/*
- * Remove a event from the PMU.
+ * Remove an event from the PMU.
*/
static void power_pmu_del(struct perf_event *event, int ef_flags)
{
@@ -1742,7 +1742,7 @@ static int power_pmu_commit_txn(struct pmu *pmu)
/*
* Return 1 if we might be able to put event on a limited PMC,
* or 0 if not.
- * A event can only go on a limited PMC if it counts something
+ * An event can only go on a limited PMC if it counts something
* that a limited PMC can count, doesn't require interrupts, and
* doesn't exclude any processor mode.
*/
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 1fa12887ec02..e6dd3a2f8ec4 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ struct perf_addr_filters_head {
};
/**
- * enum perf_event_state - the states of a event
+ * enum perf_event_state - the states of an event:
*/
enum perf_event_state {
PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD = -4,
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index a4d5ac6d74af..86b31e5a5a9a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1656,7 +1656,7 @@ perf_event_groups_next(struct perf_event *event)
typeof(*event), group_node))
/*
- * Add a event from the lists for its context.
+ * Add an event from the lists for its context.
* Must be called with ctx->mutex and ctx->lock held.
*/
static void
@@ -1844,7 +1844,7 @@ static void perf_group_attach(struct perf_event *event)
}
/*
- * Remove a event from the lists for its context.
+ * Remove an event from the lists for its context.
* Must be called with ctx->mutex and ctx->lock held.
*/
static void
@@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ static void __perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event,
}
/*
- * Disable a event.
+ * Disable an event.
*
* If event->ctx is a cloned context, callers must make sure that
* every task struct that event->ctx->task could possibly point to
@@ -2677,7 +2677,7 @@ static void __perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event,
}
/*
- * Enable a event.
+ * Enable an event.
*
* If event->ctx is a cloned context, callers must make sure that
* every task struct that event->ctx->task could possibly point to
@@ -2755,7 +2755,7 @@ static int __perf_event_stop(void *info)
* events will refuse to restart because of rb::aux_mmap_count==0,
* see comments in perf_aux_output_begin().
*
- * Since this is happening on a event-local CPU, no trace is lost
+ * Since this is happening on an event-local CPU, no trace is lost
* while restarting.
*/
if (sd->restart)
@@ -4827,7 +4827,7 @@ __perf_read(struct perf_event *event, char __user *buf, size_t count)
int ret;
/*
- * Return end-of-file for a read on a event that is in
+ * Return end-of-file for a read on an event that is in
* error state (i.e. because it was pinned but it couldn't be
* scheduled on to the CPU at some point).
*/
@@ -9898,7 +9898,7 @@ enabled:
}
/*
- * Allocate and initialize a event structure
+ * Allocate and initialize an event structure
*/
static struct perf_event *
perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
@@ -11229,7 +11229,7 @@ const struct perf_event_attr *perf_event_attrs(struct perf_event *event)
}
/*
- * Inherit a event from parent task to child task.
+ * Inherit an event from parent task to child task.
*
* Returns:
* - valid pointer on success
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index ccc579a7d32e..aed1ba569954 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ int uprobe_register(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, struct uprobe_consumer *
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uprobe_register);
/*
- * uprobe_apply - unregister a already registered probe.
+ * uprobe_apply - unregister an already registered probe.
* @inode: the file in which the probe has to be removed.
* @offset: offset from the start of the file.
* @uc: consumer which wants to add more or remove some breakpoints
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ int uprobe_apply(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
}
/*
- * uprobe_unregister - unregister a already registered probe.
+ * uprobe_unregister - unregister an already registered probe.
* @inode: the file in which the probe has to be removed.
* @offset: offset from the start of the file.
* @uc: identify which probe if multiple probes are colocated.
@@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static struct return_instance *free_ret_instance(struct return_instance *ri)
/*
* Called with no locks held.
- * Called in context of a exiting or a exec-ing thread.
+ * Called in context of an exiting or an exec-ing thread.
*/
void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struct *t)
{
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
index 11300dbe35c5..14e13512c05f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ perf also supports group leader sampling using the :S specifier.
perf record -e '{cycles,instructions}:S' ...
perf report --group
-Normally all events in a event group sample, but with :S only
+Normally all events in an event group sample, but with :S only
the first event (the leader) samples, and it only reads the values of the
other events in the group.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 04168da4268e..246dee081efd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ OPTIONS
"perf report" to view group events together.
--filter=<filter>::
- Event filter. This option should follow a event selector (-e) which
+ Event filter. This option should follow an event selector (-e) which
selects either tracepoint event(s) or a hardware trace PMU
(e.g. Intel PT or CoreSight).
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ OPTIONS
--exclude-perf::
Don't record events issued by perf itself. This option should follow
- a event selector (-e) which selects tracepoint event(s). It adds a
+ an event selector (-e) which selects tracepoint event(s). It adds a
filter expression 'common_pid != $PERFPID' to filters. If other
'--filter' exists, the new filter expression will be combined with
them by '&&'.