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

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Message-ID: <2a14eb40-ea42-fcf0-6f1a-458e13f9983d@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:31:37 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 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 2/11/19 7:27 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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 for the info.

-- 
~Randy