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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-30 17:53:32 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-30 17:53:32 -0400
commit65fb0d23fcddd8697c871047b700c78817bdaa43 (patch)
tree119e6e5f276622c4c862f6c9b6d795264ba1603a /Documentation/filesystems
parent8c083f081d0014057901c68a0a3e0f8ca7ac8d23 (diff)
parentdfbbe89e197a77f2c8046a51c74e33e35f878080 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into cpumask-for-linus
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt7
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index ec6a9392a173..4e78ce677843 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that
437can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas). 437can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas).
438Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()... 438Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()...
439 439
440->fasync() is a mess. This area needs a big cleanup and that will probably 440->fasync() is called without BKL protection, and is responsible for
441affect locking. 441maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags. Most instances call
442fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's not normally
443something one needs to worry about. Return values > 0 will be mapped to
444zero in the VFS layer.
442 445
443->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would 446->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would
444move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory 447move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
index 23448551cabe..e055acb6b2d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ Implementations for:
376Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs 376Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
377Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.net/content.html#FSDEXT2 377Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.net/content.html#FSDEXT2
378DOS client (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ 378DOS client (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
379OS/2 (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/ 379OS/2 (+) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
380RISC OS client http://www.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de/~marco/smorbrod/IscaFS/ 380RISC OS client http://www.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de/~marco/smorbrod/IscaFS/
381 381
382(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Mar 2009) 382(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Apr 2001)
383(+) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Mar 2009)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index a87be42f8211..830bad7cce0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1478,6 +1478,13 @@ of problems on the network like duplicate address or bad checksums. Normally,
1478this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be 1478this should be enabled, but if the problem persists the messages can be
1479disabled. 1479disabled.
1480 1480
1481netdev_budget
1482-------------
1483
1484Maximum number of packets taken from all interfaces in one polling cycle (NAPI
1485poll). In one polling cycle interfaces which are registered to polling are
1486probed in a round-robin manner. The limit of packets in one such probe can be
1487set per-device via sysfs class/net/<device>/weight .
1481 1488
1482netdev_max_backlog 1489netdev_max_backlog
1483------------------ 1490------------------