Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: ksm: fix typos in sysfs knob names

"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 09:54:38 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/3/26 09:15, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
> 
> 在 2026/7/31 17:25, David Hildenbrand (Arm) 写道:
>> On 7/31/26 11:22, Jinjiang Tu wrote:
>>> 在 2026/7/31 17:11, David Hildenbrand (Arm) 写道:
>>> git log --grep "Fixes" Documentation/
>>>
>>> Many commits in Documentation have fix tag.
>>> I think both are ok, since documentation changes are needed to backport.
>> What? When? How? Where?
>>
>> :)
> 
> These commits only modify Documentation/ files and contains fix tags.
> 
> 0c13ed77dd2b Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/lru_sort: warn commit_inputs vs param updates race
> 0beba407d458 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: warn commit_inputs vs param updates race
> d7f00084f686 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damn/lru_sort: fix intervals autotune parameter name
> 652e1a51465f mm: fix docs for the kernel parameter ``thp_anon=``
> 14e70e4660d6 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
> da2a06188888 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
> 1beb8ae302a0 Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove zsmalloc's lack of writeback warning
> 0ff11f103f5d Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: rename the title of the document
> 465d0eb0dc31 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix the example code snip
> 205498012513 Docs/admin-guide/damon/reclaim: remove a paragraph that been obsolete due to online tuning support
> dd21bfa425c0 proc: fix documentation and description of pagemap
> a8db400f997c memory-hotplug.rst: fix wrong /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/ path
> d83fe3c99d27 memory-hotplug.rst: fix two instances of "movablecore" that should be "movable_node"
> 72a3e3e25a51 docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix some warnings
> 8867f6109b84 docs: fix numaperf.rst and add it to the doc tree
> 
> 
> But there are also commits don't contain fix tags. Such as:
> 
> abdca14655fe Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: fix 'parametrs' typo
> 78a00cac1e96 docs: fix 're-use' -> 'reuse' in documentation
> eb14b12c8c22 Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix and add missing DAMOS filter sysfs files on files hierarchy
> 472098f23323 docs: mm: fix the incorrect 'FileHugeMapped' field

That is not what I asked. You said "since documentation changes are needed to backport".

Who backports documentation fixes and to which tree?

We usually don't backport anything unless we Cc: stable. And distros don't generally
care that much about documentation backports either.

-- 
Cheers,

David