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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-05-20 15:27:44 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-05-20 15:27:44 -0500
commitad34ea2cc3845ef4dcd7d12fb0fa8484734bd672 (patch)
treead434400f5ecaa33b433c8f830e40792d8d6c05c /Documentation/filesystems
parent90356ac3194bf91a441a5f9c3067af386ef62462 (diff)
parent88d7bd8cb9eb8d64bf7997600b0d64f7834047c5 (diff)
merge by hand - fix up rejections in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt10
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index a934baeeb33a..1045da582b9b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -219,8 +219,12 @@ This may also be done to avoid internal deadlocks, but rarely.
If the filesytem is called for sync then it must wait on any
in-progress I/O and then start new I/O.
-The filesystem should unlock the page synchronously, before returning
-to the caller.
+The filesystem should unlock the page synchronously, before returning to the
+caller, unless ->writepage() returns special WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE
+value. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE means that page cannot really be written out
+currently, and VM should stop calling ->writepage() on this page for some
+time. VM does this by moving page to the head of the active list, hence the
+name.
Unless the filesystem is going to redirty_page_for_writepage(), unlock the page
and return zero, writepage *must* run set_page_writeback() against the page,
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index cbe85c17176b..6c98f2bd421e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -909,16 +909,6 @@ nr_free_inodes
Represents the number of free inodes. Ie. The number of inuse inodes is
(nr_inodes - nr_free_inodes).
-super-nr and super-max
-----------------------
-
-Again, super block structures are allocated by the kernel, but not freed. The
-file super-max contains the maximum number of super block handlers, where
-super-nr shows the number of currently allocated ones.
-
-Every mounted file system needs a super block, so if you plan to mount lots of
-file systems, you may want to increase these numbers.
-
aio-nr and aio-max-nr
---------------------