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

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Message-Id: <1549570542-2471-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu,  7 Feb 2019 15:15:42 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

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@...hat.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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