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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2019-02-07 15:15:42 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-02-11 09:10:22 -0800
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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 <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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.
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