linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix vm/slub.rst warning

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Message-ID: <20190211082705.0ff3d86b@lwn.net>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:27:05 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <tobin@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix vm/slub.rst warning

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:34:11 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> 
> Fix markup warning by quoting the '*' character with a backslash.
> 
> Documentation/vm/slub.rst:71: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/vm/slub.rst |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- lnx-50-rc6.orig/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> +++ lnx-50-rc6/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ end of the slab name, in order to cover
>  example, here's how you can poison the dentry cache as well as all kmalloc
>  slabs:
>  
> -	slub_debug=P,kmalloc-*,dentry
> +	slub_debug=P,kmalloc-\*,dentry
>  
>  Red zoning and tracking may realign the slab.  We can just apply sanity checks
>  to the dentry cache with::

The better fix here is to make that a literal block ("slabs::").  Happily
for all of us, Tobin already did that in 11ede50059d0.

Thanks,

jon