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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
| commit | cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92 (patch) | |
| tree | 316436f77dac75335fd2c3ef5f109e71606c50d3 /fs/sync.c | |
| parent | b6d4f7e3ef25beb8c658c97867d98883e69dc544 (diff) | |
| parent | f934fb19ef34730263e6afc01e8ec27a8a71470f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sync.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index 228e17b5e9e..2967562d416 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fdatasync(unsigned int fd) * before performing the write. * * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: initiate writeout of all those dirty pages in the - * range which are not presently under writeback. + * range which are not presently under writeback. Note that this may block for + * significant periods due to exhaustion of disk request structures. * * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER: wait upon writeout of all pages in the range * after performing the write. |