From 1413d9af241c3c3b36319213b725a9e95be3935f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 15:15:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage of negative dentries. Fixes: af0c9af1b3f66 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries") Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 58649bd4fcfc..ebc679bcb2dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the dcache isn't pruned yet. nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also -negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files. +negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead, +they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided +by the users. ============================================================== -- 2.30.2