The patch titled Subject: mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix Date: Tue Sep 26 05:49:41 PM PDT 2023 fix typo Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst~mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix +++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ smart_scan skipped. How often these pages are skipped depends on how often de-duplication has already been tried and failed. By default this optimization is disabled. The ``pages_skipped`` metric shows how - effetive the setting is. + effective the setting is. The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-shmem-fix-race-in-shmem_undo_range-w-thp-fix.patch mm-memcg-reconsider-kmemlimit_in_bytes-deprecation-fix.patch mm-memcg-add-thp-swap-out-info-for-anonymous-reclaim-fix.patch mm-hugetlb-skip-initialization-of-gigantic-tail-struct-pages-if-freed-by-hvo-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-fix.patch fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-2.patch mm-ksm-add-smart-page-scanning-mode-fix.patch mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix.patch mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix-2.patch kthread-add-kthread_stop_put-v2-fix.patch