diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/defaults.conf b/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/defaults.conf
index 323a552c..63a1a83 100644
--- a/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/defaults.conf
+++ b/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/defaults.conf
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 THIS_DIR := ${PWD}
 
 
-# to orginize your configs, having each machine save their configs
+# to organize your configs, having each machine save their configs
 # into a separate directly is useful.
 CONFIG_DIR := ${THIS_DIR}/configs/${MACHINE}
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/tests.conf b/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/tests.conf
index 4fdb811..60cedb1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/tests.conf
+++ b/tools/testing/ktest/examples/include/tests.conf
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 # Build, install, boot and test with a randconfg 10 times.
 # It is important that you have set MIN_CONFIG in the config
 # that includes this file otherwise it is likely that the
-# randconfig will not have the neccessary configs needed to
+# randconfig will not have the necessary configs needed to
 # boot your box. This version of the test requires a min
 # config that has enough to make sure the target has network
 # working.
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests
index 8b40bd5..4c53cae 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 mount -t hugetlbfs none $mnt
 
 echo "--------------------"
-echo "runing hugepage-mmap"
+echo "running hugepage-mmap"
 echo "--------------------"
 ./hugepage-mmap
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 echo 268435456 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
 echo 4194304 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
 echo "--------------------"
-echo "runing hugepage-shm"
+echo "running hugepage-shm"
 echo "--------------------"
 ./hugepage-shm
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 echo $shmall > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
 
 echo "--------------------"
-echo "runing map_hugetlb"
+echo "running map_hugetlb"
 echo "--------------------"
 ./map_hugetlb
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then