linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 06/13] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description

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Message-Id: <20210527091618.287093-7-foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 May 2021 17:16:11 +0800
From:   Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
To:     neilb@...e.de
Cc:     Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>, corbet@....net,
        vegard.nossum@...cle.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, grandmaster@...klimov.de,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/13] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description

Add macro name MAXSYMLINKS to the symlink limit description, so
that it is consistent with path name length description above.

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index 3cbaf30b0f83..40b9afec4d60 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -992,8 +992,8 @@ is 4096.  There are a number of reasons for this limit; not letting the
 kernel spend too much time on just one path is one of them.  With
 symbolic links you can effectively generate much longer paths so some
 sort of limit is needed for the same reason.  Linux imposes a limit of
-at most 40 symlinks in any one path lookup.  It previously imposed a
-further limit of eight on the maximum depth of recursion, but that was
+at most 40 (MAXSYMLINKS) symlinks in any one path lookup.  It previously imposed
+a further limit of eight on the maximum depth of recursion, but that was
 raised to 40 when a separate stack was implemented, so there is now
 just the one limit.
 
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2.31.1