From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFBAC282C2 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD6F21721 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727481AbfBGUPt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:49 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55602 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726650AbfBGUPt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD3DB20B01; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:15:48 +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 CE4E462986; Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:15:45 +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 v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:42 -0500 Message-Id: <1549570542-2471-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- 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