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Message-ID: <5864E6B3.2030106@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Dec 2016 18:34:27 +0800
From:   Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
CC:     <ngupta@...are.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mm: fix typo of cache_alloc_zspage()

On 2016/12/29 15:56, Minchan Kim wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 04:34:03PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On (12/29/16 15:59), Minchan Kim wrote:
>> [..]
>>>> I don't know... do we want to have it as a separate patch?
>>>> may be we can fold it into some other patch someday later.
>>>
>>> Xishi spent his time to make the patch(review,create/send). And I want to
>>> give a credit to him. :)
>>
>> sure, I didn't mean "let's seize the credit" :)  my reasoning was
>> that that patch hardly can be counted even as trivial. per
>> documentation:
>>
>> : Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
>> :
>> : - Spelling fixes in documentation
>> : - Spelling fixes for errors which could break :manpage:`grep(1)`
>> : - Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)
>> : - Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct)
>> : - Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things)
>> : - Removing use of deprecated functions/macros
>> : - Contact detail and documentation fixes
>> : - Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific,
>> :   since people copy, as long as it's trivial)
>> : - Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey
>> :   in re-transmission mode)
>>
>>
>> hence was my question. we can have it as "p.s. in this patch we also
>> remove XYZ reported by Xishi Qiu".
>>
>> but up to you.
>>
>>
>>
>> for instance, we can have Xishi's fix up as part of this "fix documentation
>> typos" patch. which can be counted in as trivial.
> 
> Xishi, Could you send your patch with fixing ones Sergey pointed out
> if Sergey doesn't mind?
> 
> You should include Sergey's SOB, too.
> 

Hi, Minchan and Sergey,

OK, but I will have a vacation soon, so could you just add
that typo in your patch? or I will resend v3 several days later.

Thanks
Xishi Qiu

>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
>> index 9cc3c0b2c2c1..af7cd90c26f7 100644
>> --- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
>> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
>>   * Usage of struct page flags:
>>   *     PG_private: identifies the first component page
>>   *     PG_private2: identifies the last component page
>> - *     PG_owner_priv_1: indentifies the huge component page
>> + *     PG_owner_priv_1: identifies the huge component page
>>   *
>>   */
>>  
>> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
>>  #define ZS_ALIGN               8
>>  
>>  /*
>> - * A single 'zspage' is composed of up to 2^N discontiguous 0-order (single)
>> + * A single 'zspage' is composed of up to 2^N discontinuous 0-order (single)
> 
> Hmm, discontinuous is right?
> I'm not a native but discontiguos is wrong? "contiguous" was used mm part widely.
> 
> 
>>   * pages. ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER defines upper limit on N.
>>   */
>>  #define ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER 2
>> @@ -2383,7 +2383,7 @@ struct zs_pool *zs_create_pool(const char *name)
>>                 goto err;
>>  
>>         /*
>> -        * Iterate reversly, because, size of size_class that we want to use
>> +        * Iterate reversely, because, size of size_class that we want to use
>>          * for merging should be larger or equal to current size.
>>          */
>>         for (i = zs_size_classes - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 	-ss
>>
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