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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 1 |
5 files changed, 15 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 14cdc101d165..1b5f15653b1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -447,7 +447,6 @@ prototypes: int (*flush) (struct file *); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync); - int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync); int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int); int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); ssize_t (*readv) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt index 2cf81082581d..5368690f412e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locks.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ forever. This should not cause problems for anybody, since everybody using a 2.1.x kernel should have updated their C library to a suitable version -anyway (see the file "Documentation/Changes".) +anyway (see the file "Documentation/process/changes.rst".) 1.2 Allow Mixed Locks Again --------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt index 0b2883b17d4c..5efae00f6c7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Updated 2006 by Horms <horms@verge.net.au> In order to use a diskless system, such as an X-terminal or printer server for example, it is necessary for the root filesystem to be present on a non-disk device. This may be an initramfs (see Documentation/filesystems/ -ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt), a ramdisk (see Documentation/initrd.txt) or a +ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt), a ramdisk (see Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst) or a filesystem mounted via NFS. The following text describes on how to use NFS for the root filesystem. For the rest of this text 'client' means the diskless system, and 'server' means the NFS server. @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ They depend on various facilities being available: "kernel <relative-path-below /tftpboot>". The nfsroot parameters are passed to the kernel by adding them to the "append" line. It is common to use serial console in conjunction with pxeliunx, - see Documentation/serial-console.txt for more information. + see Documentation/admin-guide/serial-console.rst for more information. For more information on isolinux, including how to create bootdisks for prebuilt kernels, see http://syslinux.zytor.com/ diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 219ffd41a911..72624a16b792 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status: CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff + NoNewPrivs: 0 Seccomp: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 1 @@ -262,6 +263,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) CapPrm bitmap of permitted capabilities CapEff bitmap of effective capabilities CapBnd bitmap of capabilities bounding set + NoNewPrivs no_new_privs, like prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIV, ...) Seccomp seccomp mode, like prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP, ...) Cpus_allowed mask of CPUs on which this process may run Cpus_allowed_list Same as previous, but in "list format" @@ -395,32 +397,6 @@ is not associated with a file: or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. -The /proc/PID/task/TID/maps is a view of the virtual memory from the viewpoint -of the individual tasks of a process. In this file you will see a mapping marked -as [stack] if that task sees it as a stack. Hence, for the example above, the -task-level map, i.e. /proc/PID/task/TID/maps for thread 1001 will look like this: - -08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312 /opt/test -08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312 /opt/test -0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] -a7cb1000-a7cb2000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7cb2000-a7eb2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb2000-a7eb3000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 -a7eb3000-a7ed5000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] -a7ed5000-a8008000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a8008000-a800a000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a800a000-a800b000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222 /lib/libc.so.6 -a800b000-a800e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a800e000-a8022000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8022000-a8023000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8023000-a8024000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462 /lib/libpthread.so.0 -a8024000-a8027000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -a8027000-a8043000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -a8043000-a8044000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -a8044000-a8045000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -aff35000-aff4a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 -ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] - The /proc/PID/smaps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory consumption for each of the process's mappings. For each of mappings there is a series of lines such as the following: @@ -1331,7 +1307,16 @@ second). The meanings of the columns are as follows, from left to right: - nice: niced processes executing in user mode - system: processes executing in kernel mode - idle: twiddling thumbs -- iowait: waiting for I/O to complete +- iowait: In a word, iowait stands for waiting for I/O to complete. But there + are several problems: + 1. Cpu will not wait for I/O to complete, iowait is the time that a task is + waiting for I/O to complete. When cpu goes into idle state for + outstanding task io, another task will be scheduled on this CPU. + 2. In a multi-core CPU, the task waiting for I/O to complete is not running + on any CPU, so the iowait of each CPU is difficult to calculate. + 3. The value of iowait field in /proc/stat will decrease in certain + conditions. + So, the iowait is not reliable by reading from /proc/stat. - irq: servicing interrupts - softirq: servicing softirqs - steal: involuntary wait diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index d619c8d71966..b5039a00caaf 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -828,7 +828,6 @@ struct file_operations { int (*flush) (struct file *, fl_owner_t id); int (*release) (struct inode *, struct file *); int (*fsync) (struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int datasync); - int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync); int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int); int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *); ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int); |