Re: [PATCH draft_keys 4/7] keyrings.7: minor clarification regarding decision whether to store big_key in tmpfs or not

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On 11/25/2016 02:01 AM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
> ---
>  man7/keyrings.7 | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied. Thanks, Eugene.

Cheers,

Michael


> diff --git a/man7/keyrings.7 b/man7/keyrings.7
> index c15a273..2f452c6 100644
> --- a/man7/keyrings.7
> +++ b/man7/keyrings.7
> @@ -149,7 +149,8 @@ key type, but it may hold a payload of up to 1 MiB in size.
>  The data may be stored in the swap space rather than in kernel memory
>  if the data size exceeds the overhead of storing the data in swap space
>  (a tmpfs file is used, which requires filesystem structures
> -to be allocated in the kernel).
> +to be allocated in the kernel; the size of these determines size threshold
> +above which tmpfs storage method is used).
>  This key type is useful for tasks such as holding Kerberos ticket caches.
>  .PP
>  There are more specialized key types available also,
> 


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