On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Fix a typo, punctuation, use uppercase for CPUs, and limit > tmpfs to keeping only its files in virtual memory (phrasing). > > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks Randy: not so much for these nits, but for keeping your eyes open and helping generally. > Cc: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > --- linux-next-20201201.orig/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst > +++ linux-next-20201201/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst > @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ > Tmpfs > ===== > > -Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all files in virtual memory. > +Tmpfs is a file system which keeps all of its files in virtual memory. > > > Everything in tmpfs is temporary in the sense that no files will be > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ tmpfs has the following uses: > memory. > > This mount does not depend on CONFIG_TMPFS. If CONFIG_TMPFS is not > - set, the user visible part of tmpfs is not build. But the internal > + set, the user visible part of tmpfs is not built. But the internal > mechanisms are always present. > > 2) glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for > @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ tmpfs has the following uses: > This mount is _not_ needed for SYSV shared memory. The internal > mount is used for that. (In the 2.3 kernel versions it was > necessary to mount the predecessor of tmpfs (shm fs) to use SYSV > - shared memory) > + shared memory.) > > 3) Some people (including me) find it very convenient to mount it > e.g. on /tmp and /var/tmp and have a big swap partition. And now > @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ If nr_blocks=0 (or size=0), blocks will > if nr_inodes=0, inodes will not be limited. It is generally unwise to > mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to > use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of > -that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. > +that instance in a system with many CPUs making intensive use of it. > > > tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
