From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3B67D04D for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727379AbfBGUN1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:13:27 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55160 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727282AbfBGUN1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:13:27 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 59AF120276; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.com (dhcp-17-35.bos.redhat.com [10.18.17.35]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5B218780; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:13:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Waiman Long To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Kees Cook , Luis Chamberlain , Linus Torvalds , Alexander Viro , Waiman Long Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:13:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1549570393-2140-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage of negative dentries. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long --- Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 58649bd..ebc679b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also -negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. ============================================================== -- 1.8.3.1