From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755691Ab0FSMjI (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:39:08 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:60568 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755602Ab0FSMjG (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:39:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; b=GwxC3QBl7JVAXfigi0GGesDNeZN5vg0DiKdC7Wgm1Bz4nAcK7ADm+XvpolWTMtjCDN g5Pits5uWT3wMWF2VMeMnvc4vszMTa4yEvEANsaDUqXBsQvi/Y3Mn0ytu7KDPN9ZF8yI hML1urZNWpkZ5kS2t4CsewVQcAy4VxQL8JJRk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100619122918.GJ18946@basil.fritz.box> References: <20100619085849.GD18946@basil.fritz.box> <20100619122918.GJ18946@basil.fritz.box> From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:38:42 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: man-pages text for MAV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE To: Andi Kleen Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, lkml , Andrew Morton , linux-man Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andi, On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 02:22:33PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Hi Andi, >> >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> >> +.IR len . >> >> +The KSM daemon >> >> +.RI ( ksmd ) >> > >> > You should probably make clear it's a kernel thread, not a classic >> > daemon. >> >> Thanks. I changed it to "KSM kernel thread" >> >> >> +periodically scans those areas of user memory that have >> >> +been marked as mergeable, >> >> +looking for pages with identical content. >> > >> > Overall it seems like an internal implementation detail. >> >> Not sure how I could improve this. Did you have some specific idea in mind? > > Just dropping the sentence or using soft language like "the kernel regularly > attempts to merge pages" Thanks. I reworded like as you suggest. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/