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Re: [PATCH] docs/vm/transhuge: Fix few trivial typos

From Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] docs/vm/transhuge: Fix few trivial typos
Date 2017-04-06 19:10 +0200
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On 04/05/17 14:02, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
> index cd28d5ee5273..4e22578e50d3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
> @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ for each mapping.
>  
>  The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available
>  by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in /proc/meminfo.
> -To identify what applications are mapping file  transparent huge pages, it
> +To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it
>  is necessary to read /proc/PID/smaps and count the FileHugeMapped fields
>  for each mapping.
>  
> @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ thp_collapse_alloc_failed is incremented if khugepaged found a range
>  	the allocation.
>  
>  thp_file_alloc is incremented every time a file huge page is successfully
> -i	allocated.
> +	allocated.
>  
>  thp_file_mapped is incremented every time a file huge page is mapped into
>  	user address space.
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero().
>  
>  All tail pages have zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). This prevents the
>  scanner from getting a reference to the tail page up to that point. After the
> -atomic_add() we don't care about the ->_refcount value.  We already known how
> +atomic_add() we don't care about the ->_refcount value. We already known how
>  many references should be uncharged from the head page.
>  
>  For head page get_page_unless_zero() will succeed and we don't mind. It's
> @@ -519,8 +519,8 @@ comes. Splitting will free up unused subpages.
>  
>  Splitting the page right away is not an option due to locking context in
>  the place where we can detect partial unmap. It's also might be
> -counterproductive since in many cases partial unmap unmap happens during
> -exit(2) if an THP crosses VMA boundary.
> +counterproductive since in many cases partial unmap happens during exit(2) if
> +an THP crosses VMA boundary.

   a THP
and maybe:
          crosses a VMA boundary.

>  
>  Function deferred_split_huge_page() is used to queue page for splitting.
>  The splitting itself will happen when we get memory pressure via shrinker
> 


-- 
~Randy

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[PATCH] docs/vm/transhuge: Fix few trivial typos SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> - 2017-04-05 23:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] docs/vm/transhuge: Fix few trivial typos Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2017-04-06 19:10 +0200

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