linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: fix function usage information for -f option

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Message-ID: <e172056c-fe88-4c7e-376b-ce768d76ab5b@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:37:34 -0800
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>, corbet@....net
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, broonie@...nel.org,
        weizhenliang@...wei.com, georgi.djakov@...aro.org,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hanshenghong2019@...il.szu.edu.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: fix function usage
 information for -f option



On 2/25/22 19:26, Yixuan Cao wrote:
> A previous linux-next based patch
> d7e9705bb715fc3deb16bfd5976d9d50f8d2aa67
> (tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: fix the instructions for use)
> stated that the description for the "-f" option should be
> "Filter out the information of blocks whose memory
> has been released."
> 
> So I made the same changes in this document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>
> ---
>  Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> index aec1906976f4..32ca54757d3f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
> @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Usage
>  
>  2) Enable page owner: add "page_owner=on" to boot cmdline.
>  
> -3) Do the job what you want to debug
> +3) Do the job what you want to debug.

s/what/that/

>  
>  4) Analyze information from page owner::
>  
> @@ -126,4 +126,4 @@ Usage
>  		-c		Cull by comparing stacktrace instead of total block.
>  
>  	Filter:
> -		-f		Filter out the information of blocks whose memory has not been released.
> +		-f		Filter out the information of blocks whose memory has been released.

-- 
~Randy