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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/files.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt4
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 23d2f4460deb..ccec55394380 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ prototypes:
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
- int (*dir_notify)(struct file *, unsigned long);
};
locking rules:
@@ -424,7 +423,6 @@ sendfile: no
sendpage: no
get_unmapped_area: no
check_flags: no
-dir_notify: no
->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
index bb0142f61084..ac2facc50d2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
@@ -76,13 +76,13 @@ the fdtable structure -
5. Handling of the file structures is special. Since the look-up
of the fd (fget()/fget_light()) are lock-free, it is possible
that look-up may race with the last put() operation on the
- file structure. This is avoided using atomic_inc_not_zero()
+ file structure. This is avoided using atomic_long_inc_not_zero()
on ->f_count :
rcu_read_lock();
file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
if (file) {
- if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count))
+ if (atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&file->f_count))
*fput_needed = 1;
else
/* Didn't get the reference, someone's freed */
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ the fdtable structure -
....
return file;
- atomic_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or
+ atomic_long_inc_not_zero() detects if refcounts is already zero or
goes to zero during increment. If it does, we fail
fget()/fget_light().
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index bb1b0dd3bfcb..71df353e367c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1339,10 +1339,13 @@ nmi_watchdog
Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is non-zero
the NMI watchdog is enabled and will continuously test all online cpus to
-determine whether or not they are still functioning properly.
+determine whether or not they are still functioning properly. Currently,
+passing "nmi_watchdog=" parameter at boot time is required for this function
+to work.
-Because the NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile, by disabling the NMI
-watchdog, oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
+If LAPIC NMI watchdog method is in use (nmi_watchdog=2 kernel parameter), the
+NMI watchdog shares registers with oprofile. By disabling the NMI watchdog,
+oprofile may have more registers to utilize.
msgmni
------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 5579bda58a6d..ef19afa186a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -733,7 +733,6 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
- int (*dir_notify)(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg);
int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
@@ -800,8 +799,6 @@ otherwise noted.
check_flags: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_SETFL command
- dir_notify: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_NOTIFY command
-
flock: called by the flock(2) system call
splice_write: called by the VFS to splice data from a pipe to a file. This
@@ -931,7 +928,7 @@ manipulate dentries:
d_lookup: look up a dentry given its parent and path name component
It looks up the child of that given name from the dcache
hash table. If it is found, the reference count is incremented
- and the dentry is returned. The caller must use d_put()
+ and the dentry is returned. The caller must use dput()
to free the dentry when it finishes using it.
For further information on dentry locking, please refer to the document
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
index 0a1668ba2600..9878f50d6ed6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
@@ -229,10 +229,6 @@ The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
ISGID bit is cleared if the irix_sgid_inherit compatibility sysctl
is set.
- fs.xfs.restrict_chown (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1)
- Controls whether unprivileged users can use chown to "give away"
- a file to another user.
-
fs.xfs.inherit_sync (Min: 0 Default: 1 Max: 1)
Setting this to "1" will cause the "sync" flag set
by the xfs_io(8) chattr command on a directory to be