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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 14:50:29 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 14:50:29 -0400
commit2f4084209adc77f9a1c9f38db3019a509e167882 (patch)
tree775657114c885505ecc46605e29ea1470e986f76 /Documentation
parent2f10ffcfb28beb35137d9e86992c771b4a6c5f2a (diff)
parent3440c49f5c5ecb4f29b0544aa87da71888404f8f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch loop: Update mtime when writing using aops block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL cciss: unlock on error path cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() paride: fix off-by-one test drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index 8bca1d5cec09..e8473eae2a20 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
16 </address> 16 </address>
17 </affiliation> 17 </affiliation>
18 </author> 18 </author>
19 <author>
20 <firstname>William</firstname>
21 <surname>Cohen</surname>
22 <affiliation>
23 <address>
24 <email>wcohen@redhat.com</email>
25 </address>
26 </affiliation>
27 </author>
19 </authorgroup> 28 </authorgroup>
20 29
21 <legalnotice> 30 <legalnotice>
@@ -91,4 +100,8 @@
91!Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h 100!Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h
92 </chapter> 101 </chapter>
93 102
103 <chapter id="block">
104 <title>Block IO</title>
105!Iinclude/trace/events/block.h
106 </chapter>
94</book> 107</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 6fab97ea7e6b..508b5b2b0289 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -1162,8 +1162,8 @@ where a driver received a request ala this before:
1162 1162
1163As mentioned, there is no virtual mapping of a bio. For DMA, this is 1163As mentioned, there is no virtual mapping of a bio. For DMA, this is
1164not a problem as the driver probably never will need a virtual mapping. 1164not a problem as the driver probably never will need a virtual mapping.
1165Instead it needs a bus mapping (pci_map_page for a single segment or 1165Instead it needs a bus mapping (dma_map_page for a single segment or
1166use blk_rq_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For 1166use dma_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
1167PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a 1167PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a
1168while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data 1168while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data
1169transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O, 1169transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O,