Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: proc: fix repeated word 'page'

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Wed Jul 22 2026 - 12:44:12 EST


Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Remove the duplicate 'page' in the sentence describing large page
> allocation accounting. The extra word makes the description confusing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 2ccd5b2dfdd3..d22ac0addd42 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ In some kernel configurations, the semantics of pages part of a larger
> allocation (e.g., THP) can differ: a page is accounted as "private" if all
> pages part of the corresponding large allocation are *certainly* mapped in the
> same process, even if the page is mapped multiple times in that process. A
> -page is accounted as "shared" if any page page of the larger allocation
> +page is accounted as "shared" if any page of the larger allocation
> is *maybe* mapped in a different process. In some cases, a large allocation

Applied, thanks.

jon