On Mon, 1 Jul 2024 21:33:20 -0700 Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This seems a reasonable thing to do so there's probably some way in > > > which to do it, but a bit of grepping failed to turn up examples in > > > existing .rst files. Can someone please suggest? > > > > It seems I need to add some blank lines according to [1], especially > > to add a blank line above the first list item: > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > index 75e22137d849..74b4c0f65213 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst > > @@ -274,12 +274,15 @@ Correctable memory errors are very common on > > servers. Soft-offline is kernel's > > solution for memory pages having (excessive) corrected memory errors. > > > > For different types of page, soft-offline has different behaviors / costs. > > + > > - For a raw error page, soft-offline migrates the in-use page's content to > > a new raw page. > > + > > - For a page that is part of a transparent hugepage, soft-offline splits the > > transparent hugepage into raw pages, then migrates only the raw error page. > > As a result, user is transparently backed by 1 less hugepage, impacting > > memory access performance. > > + > > - For a page that is part of a HugeTLB hugepage, soft-offline first migrates > > the entire HugeTLB hugepage, during which a free hugepage will be consumed > > as migration target. Then the original hugepage is dissolved into raw > > > > But I am having trouble testing the build, so wasn't able to validate > > the change above: > > > > Documentation$ make > > /tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py -o > > /Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/index.rst -x > > make: /tools/net/ynl/ynl-gen-rst.py: No such file or directory > > make: *** [Makefile:113: > > /Documentation/networking/netlink_spec/index.rst] Error 127 You need to install all sorts of whacky system and python packages. The (failed) build process should guide you through this. > I tried another way: make htmldocs at repo's root directory. Although > I wasn't able to finish the make process, > > - without the blank lines: > > Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst:278: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. > Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst:279: WARNING: Block quote > ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. > > - with the blank lines added, the ERROR and WARNING in vm/rst are gone. > > Andrew and Stephen, what is the best way to post the fix for this? > Should I send out a v8 of the patch with the blank lines added? or a > standalone commit for this fix? I added your fix, thanks.
