From 238844aa967747d9d11cca0b94584393ee2b3083 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Van Gavere Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:23:24 +0200 Subject: overlayfs.rst: remove mention of workdir needing to be empty This requirement has not been true since v4.8 when automatic cleanup was added in commit eea2fb4851e9 ("ovl: proper cleanup of workdir") Signed-off-by: Jesse Van Gavere Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260716-overlayfs-rst-update-v2-1-ba25393ea7a3@teledyne.com> --- Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index eb846518e6ac..ba41c0694e62 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ At mount time, the two directories given as mount options "lowerdir" and mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper,\ workdir=/work /merged -The "workdir" needs to be an empty directory on the same filesystem -as upperdir. +The "workdir" needs to be a directory on the same filesystem as upperdir. Then whenever a lookup is requested in such a merged directory, the lookup is performed in each actual directory and the combined result -- cgit v1.2.3 From 61ef5e7e206db0477ab5b9aa47fcbb92c15db1ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yahya Toubali Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:56:13 +0100 Subject: Documentation: proc: fix repeated word 'page' Remove the duplicate 'page' in the sentence describing large page allocation accounting. The extra word makes the description confusing. Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20260718165613.1923550-1-yahya@yahyatoubali.me> --- Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems') 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 might be treated as "maybe mapped by multiple processes" even though this is no longer the case. -- cgit v1.2.3