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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	 Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix Documentation nits
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:41:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2012021437570.4989@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201202010934.18566-1-rdunlap@infradead.org>

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> Fix a typo, punctuation, use uppercase for CPUs, and limit
> tmpfs to keeping only its files in virtual memory (phrasing).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Thanks Randy: not so much for these nits,
but for keeping your eyes open and helping generally.

> Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst |    8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- linux-next-20201201.orig/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
> +++ linux-next-20201201/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>  Tmpfs
>  =====
>  
> -Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory.
> +Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all of its files in virtual memory.
>  
>  
>  Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ tmpfs has the following uses:
>     memory.
>  
>     This mount does not depend on CONFIG_TMPFS. If CONFIG_TMPFS is not
> -   set, the user visible part of tmpfs is not build. But the internal
> +   set, the user visible part of tmpfs is not built. But the internal
>     mechanisms are always present.
>  
>  2) glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ tmpfs has the following uses:
>     This mount is _not_ needed for SYSV shared memory. The internal
>     mount is used for that. (In the 2.3 kernel versions it was
>     necessary to mount the predecessor of tmpfs (shm fs) to use SYSV
> -   shared memory)
> +   shared memory.)
>  
>  3) Some people (including me) find it very convenient to mount it
>     e.g. on /tmp and /var/tmp and have a big swap partition. And now
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ If nr_blocks=0 (or size=0), blocks will
>  if nr_inodes=0, inodes will not be limited.  It is generally unwise to
>  mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to
>  use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of
> -that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it.
> +that instance in a system with many CPUs making intensive use of it.
>  
>  
>  tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for


      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-02  1:09 [PATCH] tmpfs: fix Documentation nits Randy Dunlap
2020-12-02 22:41 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]

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