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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Yama.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 14 |
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl index 3fca32c4192..25b58efd955 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl @@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ all your transactions. </para> <para> -Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5) -you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object. +Then at umount time , in your put_super() you can then call journal_destroy() +to clean up your in-core journal object. </para> <para> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 0f103e39b4f..e540a24e5d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ prototypes: int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); - void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); @@ -136,7 +135,6 @@ write_inode: drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!! evict_inode: put_super: write -write_super: read sync_fs: read freeze_fs: write unfreeze_fs: write diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 2bef2b3843d..0742feebc6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -94,9 +94,8 @@ protected. --- [mandatory] -BKL is also moved from around sb operations. ->write_super() Is now called -without BKL held. BKL should have been shifted into individual fs sb_op -functions. If you don't need it, remove it. +BKL is also moved from around sb operations. BKL should have been shifted into +individual fs sb_op functions. If you don't need it, remove it. --- [informational] diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 065aa2dc083..2ee133e030c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ struct super_operations { void (*drop_inode) (struct inode *); void (*delete_inode) (struct inode *); void (*put_super) (struct super_block *); - void (*write_super) (struct super_block *); int (*sync_fs)(struct super_block *sb, int wait); int (*freeze_fs) (struct super_block *); int (*unfreeze_fs) (struct super_block *); @@ -273,9 +272,6 @@ or bottom half). put_super: called when the VFS wishes to free the superblock (i.e. unmount). This is called with the superblock lock held - write_super: called when the VFS superblock needs to be written to - disc. This method is optional - sync_fs: called when VFS is writing out all dirty data associated with a superblock. The second parameter indicates whether the method should wait until the write out has been completed. Optional. diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt index 0bf25eebce9..4ebbfc3f1c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt @@ -262,9 +262,9 @@ MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES=10 # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # #DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=5 @@ -384,9 +384,9 @@ CPU_MAXFREQ=${CPU_MAXFREQ:-'slowest'} # # Allowed dirty background ratio, in percent. Once DIRTY_RATIO has been -# exceeded, the kernel will wake pdflush which will then reduce the amount -# of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, so once -# some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. +# exceeded, the kernel will wake flusher threads which will then reduce the +# amount of dirty memory to dirty_background_ratio. Set this nice and low, +# so once some writeout has commenced, we do a lot of it. # DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO=${DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO:-'5'} diff --git a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt index e369de2d48c..dd908cf64ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Yama.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Yama.txt @@ -46,14 +46,13 @@ restrictions, it can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, PR_SET_PTRACER_ANY, ...) so that any otherwise allowed process (even those in external pid namespaces) may attach. -These restrictions do not change how ptrace via PTRACE_TRACEME operates. - -The sysctl settings are: +The sysctl settings (writable only with CAP_SYS_PTRACE) are: 0 - classic ptrace permissions: a process can PTRACE_ATTACH to any other process running under the same uid, as long as it is dumpable (i.e. did not transition uids, start privileged, or have called - prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already). + prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE...) already). Similarly, PTRACE_TRACEME is + unchanged. 1 - restricted ptrace: a process must have a predefined relationship with the inferior it wants to call PTRACE_ATTACH on. By default, @@ -61,12 +60,13 @@ The sysctl settings are: classic criteria is also met. To change the relationship, an inferior can call prctl(PR_SET_PTRACER, debugger, ...) to declare an allowed debugger PID to call PTRACE_ATTACH on the inferior. + Using PTRACE_TRACEME is unchanged. 2 - admin-only attach: only processes with CAP_SYS_PTRACE may use ptrace - with PTRACE_ATTACH. + with PTRACE_ATTACH, or through children calling PTRACE_TRACEME. -3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH. Once set, - this sysctl cannot be changed to a lower value. +3 - no attach: no processes may use ptrace with PTRACE_ATTACH nor via + PTRACE_TRACEME. Once set, this sysctl value cannot be changed. The original children-only logic was based on the restrictions in grsecurity. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index dcc2a94ae34..078701fdbd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ huge pages although processes will also directly compact memory as required. dirty_background_bytes -Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the pdflush background writeback -daemon will start writeback. +Contains the amount of dirty memory at which the background kernel +flusher threads will start writeback. Note: dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart of dirty_background_ratio. Only one of them may be specified at a time. When one sysctl is written it is @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ other appears as 0 when read. dirty_background_ratio Contains, as a percentage of total system memory, the number of pages at which -the pdflush background writeback daemon will start writing out dirty data. +the background kernel flusher threads will start writing out dirty data. ============================================================== @@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ retained. dirty_expire_centisecs This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be eligible -for writeout by the pdflush daemons. It is expressed in 100'ths of a second. -Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will be -written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up. +for writeout by the kernel flusher threads. It is expressed in 100'ths +of a second. Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this +interval will be written out next time a flusher thread wakes up. ============================================================== @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ data. dirty_writeback_centisecs -The pdflush writeback daemons will periodically wake up and write `old' data +The kernel flusher threads will periodically wake up and write `old' data out to disk. This tunable expresses the interval between those wakeups, in 100'ths of a second. |