linux-kernel - [for-linus][PATCH 05/15] tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring

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Message-ID: <20251206010701.481932137@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:06:38 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@...lbox.org>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 05/15] tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring_buffer.c

From: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@...lbox.org>

Fix multiple typos in comments:
"ording" -> "ordering"
"scatch" -> "scratch"
"wont" -> "won't"

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-5-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@...lbox.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 8688c88534de..41c9f5d079be 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ static bool rb_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int scratch_size)
 	bmeta->total_size = total_size;
 	bmeta->buffers_offset = (void *)ptr - (void *)bmeta;
 
-	/* Zero out the scatch pad */
+	/* Zero out the scratch pad */
 	memset((void *)bmeta + sizeof(*bmeta), 0, bmeta->buffers_offset - sizeof(*bmeta));
 
 	return false;
@@ -6089,7 +6089,7 @@ static void rb_clear_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *page)
  * id field, and updated via this function.
  *
  * But for a fixed memory mapped buffer, the id is already assigned for
- * fixed memory ording in the memory layout and can not be used. Instead
+ * fixed memory ordering in the memory layout and can not be used. Instead
  * the index of where the page lies in the memory layout is used.
  *
  * For the normal pages, set the buffer page id with the passed in @id
@@ -7669,7 +7669,7 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
 	/*
 	 * Show buffer is enabled before setting rb_test_started.
 	 * Yes there's a small race window where events could be
-	 * dropped and the thread wont catch it. But when a ring
+	 * dropped and the thread won't catch it. But when a ring
 	 * buffer gets enabled, there will always be some kind of
 	 * delay before other CPUs see it. Thus, we don't care about
 	 * those dropped events. We care about events dropped after
-- 
2.51.0