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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-15 18:15:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-15 18:15:17 +0200 |
| commit | f3efbe582b5396d134024c03a5fa253f2a85d9a6 (patch) | |
| tree | e4e15b7567b82d24cb1e7327398286a2b88df04c /Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt | |
| parent | 05d3ed0a1fe3ea05ab9f3b8d32576a0bc2e19660 (diff) | |
| parent | b635acec48bcaa9183fcbf4e3955616b0d4119b5 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/gart
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt index 094f2d2f38b..510b722667a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt @@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ user-defined data with a channel, and is immediately available (including in create_buf_file()) via chan->private_data or buf->chan->private_data. +Buffer-only channels +-------------------- + +These channels have no files associated and can be created with +relay_open(NULL, NULL, ...). Such channels are useful in scenarios such +as when doing early tracing in the kernel, before the VFS is up. In these +cases, one may open a buffer-only channel and then call +relay_late_setup_files() when the kernel is ready to handle files, +to expose the buffered data to the userspace. + Channel 'modes' --------------- |