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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst2
5 files changed, 13 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst
index 0abb155ac666..ca062a7f8ee2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/afs.rst
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Mountpoints
AFS has a concept of mountpoints. In AFS terms, these are specially formatted
symbolic links (of the same form as the "device name" passed to mount). kAFS
presents these to the user as directories that have a follow-link capability
-(ie: symbolic link semantics). If anyone attempts to access them, they will
+(i.e.: symbolic link semantics). If anyone attempts to access them, they will
automatically cause the target volume to be mounted (if possible) on that site.
Automatically mounted filesystems will be automatically unmounted approximately
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ looks up a cell of the same name, for example::
Proc Filesystem
===============
-The AFS modules creates a "/proc/fs/afs/" directory and populates it:
+The AFS module creates a "/proc/fs/afs/" directory and populates it:
(*) A "cells" file that lists cells currently known to the afs module and
their usage counts::
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ And then run as::
./klog
Assuming it's successful, this adds a key of type RxRPC, named for the service
-and cell, eg: "afs@<cellname>". This can be viewed with the keyctl program or
+and cell, e.g.: "afs@<cellname>". This can be viewed with the keyctl program or
by cat'ing /proc/keys::
[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl show
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ by cat'ing /proc/keys::
111416553 --als--v 0 0 \_ rxrpc: afs@CAMBRIDGE.REDHAT.COM
Currently the username, realm, password and proposed ticket lifetime are
-compiled in to the program.
+compiled into the program.
It is not required to acquire a key before using AFS facilities, but if one is
not acquired then all operations will be governed by the anonymous user parts
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
index 8fdb78f3c6c9..e03c20564f3a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
@@ -83,20 +83,9 @@ Summary
directories. This has runtime constraints and limitations that are
described in 6) below.
- 6. When changing the S_DAX policy via toggling the persistent FS_XFLAG_DAX flag,
- the change in behaviour for existing regular files may not occur
- immediately. If the change must take effect immediately, the administrator
- needs to:
-
- a) stop the application so there are no active references to the data set
- the policy change will affect
-
- b) evict the data set from kernel caches so it will be re-instantiated when
- the application is restarted. This can be achieved by:
-
- i. drop-caches
- ii. a filesystem unmount and mount cycle
- iii. a system reboot
+ 6. When changing the S_DAX policy via toggling the persistent FS_XFLAG_DAX
+ flag, the change to existing regular files won't take effect until the
+ files are closed by all processes.
Details
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 7be9b46d85d9..1f76b1cb3348 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ Documentation for filesystem implementations.
erofs
ext2
ext3
+ ext4/index
f2fs
gfs2
gfs2-uevents
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 2fa69f710e2a..9abdba17565e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -687,7 +687,10 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
kcore Kernel core image (can be ELF or A.OUT(deprecated in 2.4))
kmsg Kernel messages
ksyms Kernel symbol table
- loadavg Load average of last 1, 5 & 15 minutes
+ loadavg Load average of last 1, 5 & 15 minutes;
+ number of processes currently runnable (running or on ready queue);
+ total number of processes in system;
+ last pid created.
locks Kernel locks
meminfo Memory info
misc Miscellaneous
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index ca52c82e5bb5..18d69a4559d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ members are defined:
.. code-block:: c
- struct file_system_operations {
+ struct file_system_type {
const char *name;
int fs_flags;
struct dentry *(*mount) (struct file_system_type *, int,