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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 4db22f6491e0..85a4a033bae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -445,3 +445,6 @@ object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care... [mandatory] FS_REVAL_DOT is gone; if you used to have it, add ->d_weak_revalidate() in your dentry operations instead. +-- +[mandatory] + vfs_readdir() is gone; switch to iterate_dir() instead diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 954eab8c7fec..be35913d282b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ is not associated with a file: [stack:1001] = the stack of the thread with tid 1001 [vdso] = the "virtual dynamic shared object", the kernel system call handler + [anon:<name>] = an anonymous mapping that has been + named by userspace or if empty, the mapping is anonymous. @@ -419,6 +421,7 @@ KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB Locked: 374 kB VmFlags: rd ex mr mw me de +Name: name from userspace the first of these lines shows the same information as is displayed for the mapping in /proc/PID/maps. The remaining lines show the size of the mapping @@ -469,6 +472,9 @@ Note that there is no guarantee that every flag and associated mnemonic will be present in all further kernel releases. Things get changed, the flags may be vanished or the reverse -- new added. +The "Name" field will only be present on a mapping that has been named by +userspace, and will show the name passed in by userspace. + This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. @@ -484,6 +490,10 @@ To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process > echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. +To reset the peak resident set size ("high water mark") to the process's +current value: + > echo 5 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using /proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt index 403c090aca39..e5274f84dc56 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ SQUASHFS 4.0 FILESYSTEM ======================= Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. -It uses zlib/lzo/xz compression to compress files, inodes and directories. -Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to minimise -data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a maximum -of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K). +It uses zlib, lz4, lzo, or xz compression to compress files, inodes and +directories. Inodes in the system are very small and all blocks are packed to +minimise data overhead. Block sizes greater than 4K are supported up to a +maximum of 1Mbytes (default block size 128K). Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained |