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

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Message-ID: <5917d82f-742e-4c19-993e-182551153c6d@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:45:14 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Thomas Böhler <witcher@...edspace.de>,
 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: filesystems: ensure proc pid substitutable is
 complete



On 1/30/26 7:25 AM, Thomas Böhler wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  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,

-- 
~Randy