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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 247d7f619aa2..eb1a6cad21e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -356,10 +356,9 @@ The last two are called only from check_disk_change(). prototypes: loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int); ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t); ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, - loff_t); + ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); + ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 7db71d6fba82..7240ee7515de 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ Table of Contents 2.9 Appletalk 2.10 IPX 2.11 /proc/sys/fs/mqueue - POSIX message queues filesystem + 2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score + 2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -1962,6 +1964,22 @@ a queue must be less or equal then msg_max. maximum message size value (it is every message queue's attribute set during its creation). +2.12 /proc/<pid>/oom_adj - Adjust the oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------ + +This file can be used to adjust the score used to select which processes +should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. Giving it a high score will +increase the likelihood of this process being killed by the oom-killer. Valid +values are in the range -16 to +15, plus the special value -17, which disables +oom-killing altogether for this process. + +2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score +------------------------------------------------------------- + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This file can be used to check the current score used by the oom-killer is for +any given <pid>. Use it together with /proc/<pid>/oom_adj to tune which +process should be killed in an out-of-memory situation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 1cb7e8be927a..cd07c21b8400 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -699,9 +699,9 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel struct file_operations { loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int); ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t); ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); - ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t); + ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); + ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); |