Documentation: Fix grammatical error in sysctl/fs.txt & clarify negative dentry

Fix a grammatical error in the dentry-state text and clarify the usage
of negative dentries.

Fixes: af0c9af1b3 ("fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Waiman Long 2019-02-07 15:15:42 -05:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -80,7 +80,9 @@ nonzero when shrink_dcache_pages() has been called and the
dcache isn't pruned yet.
nr_negative shows the number of unused dentries that are also
negative dentries which do not mapped to actual files.
negative dentries which do not map to any files. Instead,
they help speeding up rejection of non-existing files provided
by the users.
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