linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page

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Message-ID: <875x85ao2b.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:17:48 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Min-Hsun Chang <chmh0624@...il.com>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Walleij
 <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Docs/mm: fix typos and grammar in page_tables.rst

Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> writes:

>> -the fact that Torvald's first computer had 4MB of physical memory. Entries in
>> -this single table were referred to as *PTE*:s - page table entries.
>> +the fact that Torvalds's first computer had 4MB of physical memory. Entries in
>> +this single table were referred to as *PTEs* - page table entries.
>
> I'm unsure about this change of "*PTE*:s" to "*PTEs*".  Is that special
> rst syntax to keep PTE highlighted without highlighting the 's'?

No, it was just a typo - look how the current version is rendered on
https://docs.kernel.org/mm/page_tables.html.

Thanks,

jon