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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/local_ops.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 2 |
5 files changed, 32 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index b8e86460046..b462bb14954 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -316,12 +316,10 @@ reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later). pci_map_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents, int direction) -Maps a scatter gather list from the block layer. - Returns: the number of physical segments mapped (this may be shorter -than <nents> passed in if the block layer determines that some -elements of the scatter/gather list are physically adjacent and thus -may be mapped with a single entry). +than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are +physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single +entry). Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once. The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 4340cc82579..67310fbbb7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -28,10 +28,7 @@ Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> Caveats ======= Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - extended attributes - quotas - - cluster aware flock - - cluster aware lockf - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) - POSIX ACLs diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bcceb99b81d..bb1b0dd3bfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -2483,4 +2484,30 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt +2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface +-------------------------------------------------------- + +This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface. + +max_user_instances +------------------ + +This is the maximum number of epoll file descriptors that a single user can +have open at a given time. The default value is 128, and should be enough +for normal users. + +max_user_watches +---------------- + +Every epoll file descriptor can store a number of files to be monitored +for event readiness. Each one of these monitored files constitutes a "watch". +This configuration option sets the maximum number of "watches" that are +allowed for each user. +Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes +on a 64bit one. +The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available +low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + diff --git a/Documentation/local_ops.txt b/Documentation/local_ops.txt index f4f8b1c6c8b..23045b8b50f 100644 --- a/Documentation/local_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/local_ops.txt @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static void do_test_timer(unsigned long data) int cpu; /* Increment the counters */ - on_each_cpu(test_each, NULL, 0, 1); + on_each_cpu(test_each, NULL, 1); /* Read all the counters */ printk("Counters read from CPU %d\n", smp_processor_id()); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 8bae2f018d3..0f5122eb282 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ So for example arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c files might have code like: /* if your mach-* infrastructure doesn't support kernels that can * run on multiple boards, pdata wouldn't benefit from "__init". */ - static struct mysoc_spi_data __init pdata = { ... }; + static struct mysoc_spi_data __initdata pdata = { ... }; static __init board_init(void) { |