perf tools: Fix spelling mistakes

Mostly in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com
[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

6 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
index 2da07e51e1190..8224142351705 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ REPORT OPTIONS
 
 -c::
 --coalesce::
-	Specify sorintg fields for single cacheline display.
+	Specify sorting fields for single cacheline display.
 	Following fields are available: tid,pid,iaddr,dso
 	(see COALESCE)
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ REPORT OPTIONS
 
 -d::
 --display::
-	Siwtch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default.
+	Switch to HITM type (rmt, lcl) to display and sort on. Total HITMs as default.
 
 C2C RECORD
 ----------
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index ea3789d05e5e6..b0e9e921d534c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	the libunwind or libdw library) should be used instead.
 	Using the "lbr" method doesn't require any compiler options. It
 	will produce call graphs from the hardware LBR registers. The
-	main limition is that it is only available on new Intel
+	main limitation is that it is only available on new Intel
 	platforms, such as Haswell. It can only get user call chain. It
 	doesn't work with branch stack sampling at the same time.
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 37a1759141579..9fa84617181e4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ OPTIONS
 --parent=<regex>::
         A regex filter to identify parent. The parent is a caller of this
 	function and searched through the callchain, thus it requires callchain
-	information recorded. The pattern is in the exteneded regex format and
+	information recorded. The pattern is in the extended regex format and
 	defaults to "\^sys_|^do_page_fault", see '--sort parent'.
 
 -x::
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -g::
 --call-graph=<print_type,threshold[,print_limit],order,sort_key[,branch],value>::
         Display call chains using type, min percent threshold, print limit,
-	call order, sort key, optional branch and value.  Note that ordering of
-	parameters is not fixed so any parement can be given in an arbitraty order.
+	call order, sort key, optional branch and value.  Note that ordering
+	is not fixed so any parameter can be given in an arbitrary order.
 	One exception is the print_limit which should be preceded by threshold.
 
 	print_type can be either:
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index fa2a9132f0a94..de8b39dda7b82 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ When the event stream contains multiple events each event is identified
 by an ID. This can be either through the PERF_SAMPLE_ID or the
 PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER header. The PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER header is
 at a fixed offset from the event header, which allows reliable
-parsing of the header. Relying on ID may be ambigious.
+parsing of the header. Relying on ID may be ambiguous.
 IDENTIFIER is only supported by newer Linux kernels.
 
 Perf record specific events:
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ struct attr_event {
 	uint64_t id[];
 };
 
-	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* depreceated */
+	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* deprecated */
 
 #define MAX_EVENT_NAME 64
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
index 170b0289a7bcd..db0ca3063eaeb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/tips.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For memory address profiling, try: perf mem record / perf mem report
 For tracepoint events, try: perf report -s trace_fields
 To record callchains for each sample: perf record -g
 To record every process run by a user: perf record -u <user>
-Skip collecing build-id when recording: perf record -B
+Skip collecting build-id when recording: perf record -B
 To change sampling frequency to 100 Hz: perf record -F 100
 See assembly instructions with percentage: perf annotate <symbol>
 If you prefer Intel style assembly, try: perf annotate -M intel
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
index 27ac047490c3a..7c3fa1c8cbcd4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ struct build_id_event {
 enum perf_user_event_type { /* above any possible kernel type */
 	PERF_RECORD_USER_TYPE_START		= 64,
 	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_ATTR			= 64,
-	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* depreceated */
+	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE		= 65, /* deprecated */
 	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_TRACING_DATA		= 66,
 	PERF_RECORD_HEADER_BUILD_ID		= 67,
 	PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND		= 68,