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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -0800 |
commit | eae21770b4fed5597623aad0d618190fa60426ff (patch) | |
tree | 23c59fb7a33e93a79525e2b10d56df54d40049d1 /Documentation/filesystems | |
parent | e9f57ebcba563e0cd532926cab83c92bb4d79360 (diff) | |
parent | 9f273c24ec5f4a6f785bb83e931b3808a07b459e (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
"I'm pretty much done for -rc1 now:
- the rest of MM, basically
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch, epoll, hfs, fatfs, ptrace, coredump, exit
- cpu_mask simplifications
- kexec, rapidio, MAINTAINERS etc, etc.
- more dma-mapping cleanups/simplifications from hch"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (109 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add/fix git URLs for various subsystems
mm: memcontrol: add "sock" to cgroup2 memory.stat
mm: memcontrol: basic memory statistics in cgroup2 memory controller
mm: memcontrol: do not uncharge old page in page cache replacement
Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} description
mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full
mm: vmscan: do not scan anon pages if memcg swap limit is hit
swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file
mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online with mem_cgroup_online
mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count()
mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2
mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions
mm: memcontrol: flatten struct cg_proto
mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c
mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM
mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
mm: memcontrol: account "kmem" consumers in cgroup2 memory controller
mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
mm: memcontrol: separate kmem code from legacy tcp accounting code
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |