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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
| commit | 85e9ca333d03fbd56b9e123c8456f0d98e20faad (patch) | |
| tree | 7bb15ada5f536950efa23ad60ea9eea60380ca1c /Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt | |
| parent | a300bec952127d9a15e666b391bb35c9aecb3002 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt index 094f2d2f38b1..510b722667ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt @@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ user-defined data with a channel, and is immediately available (including in create_buf_file()) via chan->private_data or buf->chan->private_data. +Buffer-only channels +-------------------- + +These channels have no files associated and can be created with +relay_open(NULL, NULL, ...). Such channels are useful in scenarios such +as when doing early tracing in the kernel, before the VFS is up. In these +cases, one may open a buffer-only channel and then call +relay_late_setup_files() when the kernel is ready to handle files, +to expose the buffered data to the userspace. + Channel 'modes' --------------- |