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Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:31:37 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Stefan Roesch <shr@...kernel.io>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v1 10/20] docs: document general_profit sysfs
 knob

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 09:21:51AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:
> 
> > Seems like the wording is confusing me, so I write the improv:
> >
> > ---- >8 ----
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
> > index 7768e90f7a8fef..5309a912ab679b 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
> > @@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/general_profit
> >  Date:		January 2023
> >  KernelVersion:  6.1
> >  Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@...ck.org>
> > -Description:	Measure how effective KSM is.
> > -		general_profit: how effective is KSM. The formula for the
> > -		calculation is in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst.
> > +Description:	Measure the KSM profit. See
> > +		:ref:`KSM documentation <monitoring-ksm-profit>` for details
> > +		on the calculated formula.
> 
> So the original at least attempted to tell us what "KSM profit" is; the
> "improved" version makes no such effort.  I don't think that is actually
> better.

I overlooked that, thanks!

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