From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:39:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190211083911.22f64578@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1549570542-2471-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com>
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:42 -0500
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
> Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage
> of negative dentries.
>
> Fixes: af0c9af1b3f66 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Linus, perhaps you'd like to take this one directly? It seems that the
above-reference comment went in directly, so I can't apply this fix now
without back-merging 5.0-rc5 or so...
Thanks,
jon
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> ---
> 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.
>
> ==============================================================
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-07 20:15 [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry Waiman Long
2019-02-11 15:39 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2019-02-11 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
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