linux-kernel - Re: mm: fix typo of cache_alloc

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Message-ID: <20161229075654.GF1815@bbox>
Date:   Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:56:54 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
CC:     Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@...wei.com>, <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 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.

> 
> 
> ---
> 
> 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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