linux-kernel - [PATCH] docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is complete

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Message-Id: <20260130-ksm_stat-v1-1-a6aa0da78de6@wiredspace.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:25:07 +0100
From: Thomas Böhler <witcher@...edspace.de>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Böhler <witcher@...edspace.de>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is
 complete

The entry in proc.rst for 3.14 is missing the closing ">" of the "pid"
field for the ksm_stat file. Add this for both the table of contents and
the actual header for the "ksm_stat" file.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Böhler <witcher@...edspace.de>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 8256e857e2d7..346816b02bac 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fixes/update part 1.1  Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>    June 9 2009
   3.11	/proc/<pid>/patch_state - Livepatch patch operation state
   3.12	/proc/<pid>/arch_status - Task architecture specific information
   3.13  /proc/<pid>/fd - List of symlinks to open files
-  3.14  /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status.
+  3.14  /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status.
 
   4	Configuring procfs
   4.1	Mount options
@@ -2289,7 +2289,7 @@ The number of open files for the process is stored in 'size' member
 of stat() output for /proc/<pid>/fd for fast access.
 -------------------------------------------------------
 
-3.14 /proc/<pid/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status
+3.14 /proc/<pid>/ksm_stat - Information about the process's ksm status
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 When CONFIG_KSM is enabled, each process has this file which displays
 the information of ksm merging status.

---
base-commit: 6b8edfcd661b569f077cc1ea1f7463ec38547779
change-id: 20260130-ksm_stat-4d14366630ea

Best regards,
-- 
Thomas Böhler <witcher@...edspace.de>