From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1549570542-2471-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
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")
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.
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1.8.3.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-02-07 20:15 UTC|newest]
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2019-02-07 20:15 Waiman Long [this message]
2019-02-11 15:39 ` [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry Jonathan Corbet
2019-02-11 17:11 ` Linus Torvalds
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