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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 31 |
3 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index ac2a261c5f7..6ef8cf3bc9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -457,6 +457,9 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.30: + - Fix writev() (it kept writing the first segment over and over again + instead of moving onto subsequent segments). 2.1.29: - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 7fcac6393cd..dfbcd1b00b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -385,3 +385,12 @@ Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. on many or all directory inodes on the way down a path walk (to check for exec permission). These must now be rcu-walk aware (flags & IPERM_FLAG_RCU). See Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt for more details. + +-- +[mandatory] + In ->fallocate() you must check the mode option passed in. If your +filesystem does not support hole punching (deallocating space in the middle of a +file) you must return -EOPNOTSUPP if FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE is set in mode. +Currently you can only have FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE set, +so the i_size should not change when hole punching, even when puching the end of +a file off. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index e73df2722ff..23cae6548d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ Anonymous: 0 kB Swap: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB +Locked: 374 kB The first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping @@ -670,6 +671,8 @@ varies by architecture and compile options. The following is from a > cat /proc/meminfo +The "Locked" indicates whether the mapping is locked in memory or not. + MemTotal: 16344972 kB MemFree: 13634064 kB @@ -1181,6 +1184,30 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname> mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks .............................................................................. +2.0 /proc/consoles +------------------ +Shows registered system console lines. + +To see which character device lines are currently used for the system console +/dev/console, you may simply look into the file /proc/consoles: + + > cat /proc/consoles + tty0 -WU (ECp) 4:7 + ttyS0 -W- (Ep) 4:64 + +The columns are: + + device name of the device + operations R = can do read operations + W = can do write operations + U = can do unblank + flags E = it is enabled + C = it is prefered console + B = it is primary boot console + p = it is used for printk buffer + b = it is not a TTY but a Braille device + a = it is safe to use when cpu is offline + major:minor major and minor number of the device separated by a colon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary @@ -1296,6 +1323,10 @@ scaled linearly with /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj. Writing to /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj or /proc/<pid>/oom_adj will change the other with its scaled value. +The value of /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj may be reduced no lower than the last +value set by a CAP_SYS_RESOURCE process. To reduce the value any lower +requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. + NOTICE: /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is deprecated and will be removed, please see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. |