[PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

[PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

[Waiman Long]

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

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

[Jonathan Corbet]

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.
>  
>  ==============================================================
>  

Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 7:39 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> Linus, perhaps you'd like to take this one directly?

Done.

               Linus