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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-03-26 17:18:44 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-03-26 17:19:03 +0200
commit7fd52392c56361a40f0c630a82b36b95ca31eac6 (patch)
tree14091de24c6b28ea4cae9826f98aeedb7be091f5 /Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
parentb01c3a0010aabadf745f3e7fdb9cab682e0a28a2 (diff)
parente22057c8599373e5caef0bc42bdb95d2a361ab0d (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 6872c91bce3..7a34f827989 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ Debugfs is typically mounted with a command like:
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
-(Or an equivalent /etc/fstab line).
+(Or an equivalent /etc/fstab line).
+The debugfs root directory is accessible by anyone by default. To
+restrict access to the tree the "uid", "gid" and "mode" mount
+options can be used.
Note that the debugfs API is exported GPL-only to modules.
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ file.
void __iomem *base;
};
- struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent,
struct debugfs_regset32 *regset);