diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 09c5c6431f4..3b8c7bc943b 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
 	  Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
 	  by software and hardware.
 
-	  Software events are supported either build-in or via the
+	  Software events are supported either built-in or via the
 	  use of generic tracepoints.
 
 	  Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
 	  used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
 
 	  The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
-	  these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
+	  these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
 	  system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
 	  provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
 	  capabilities on top of those.