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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt | 7 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi index d773d5697cf5..3187a18af6da 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-bdi @@ -53,3 +53,11 @@ stable_pages_required (read-only) If set, the backing device requires that all pages comprising a write request must not be changed until writeout is complete. + +strictlimit (read-write) + + Forces per-BDI checks for the share of given device in the write-back + cache even before the global background dirty limit is reached. This + is useful in situations where the global limit is much higher than + affordable for given relatively slow (or untrusted) device. Turning + strictlimit on has no visible effect if max_ratio is equal to 100%. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt index ce1126aceed8..223c32171dcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt @@ -180,6 +180,16 @@ dos1xfloppy -- If set, use a fallback default BIOS Parameter Block <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false +LIMITATION +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +* The fallocated region of file is discarded at umount/evict time + when using fallocate with FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE. + So, User should assume that fallocated region can be discarded at + last close if there is memory pressure resulting in eviction of + the inode from the memory. As a result, for any dependency on + the fallocated region, user should make sure to recheck fallocate + after reopening the file. + TODO ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Need to get rid of the raw scanning stuff. Instead, always use diff --git a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt index 560e4363a55d..f609142f406a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit systems are widely available. -The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation. -The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's -going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is -preserved. +The syscall is deprecated and replaced it with an emulation now. The +emulation creates new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to +work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved. One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for |