Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix vm/slub.rst warning

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 12:31:44 EST


On 2/11/19 7:27 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:34:11 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Fix markup warning by quoting the '*' character with a backslash.
>>
>> Documentation/vm/slub.rst:71: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Documentation/vm/slub.rst | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> --- lnx-50-rc6.orig/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
>> +++ lnx-50-rc6/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
>> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ end of the slab name, in order to cover
>> example, here's how you can poison the dentry cache as well as all kmalloc
>> slabs:
>>
>> - slub_debug=P,kmalloc-*,dentry
>> + slub_debug=P,kmalloc-\*,dentry
>>
>> Red zoning and tracking may realign the slab. We can just apply sanity checks
>> to the dentry cache with::
>
> The better fix here is to make that a literal block ("slabs::"). Happily
> for all of us, Tobin already did that in 11ede50059d0.

Thanks for the info.

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~Randy