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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/timers/00-INDEX | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/00-INDEX | 20 |
4 files changed, 22 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index e59480db9ee0..cc2450d80310 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ all pending DMA writes to complete, and thus provides a mechanism to strictly order DMA from a device across all intervening busses and bridges. This barrier is not specific to a particular type of interconnect, it applies to the system as a whole, and so its -implementation must account for the idiosyncracies of the system all +implementation must account for the idiosyncrasies of the system all the way from the DMA device to memory. As an example of a situation where DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would be @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You -can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and +can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute set on each call. @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ to 'device' domain, what synchronizes CPU caches for the given region (usually it means that the cache has been flushed or invalidated depending on the dma direction). However, next calls to dma_map_{single,page,sg}() for other devices will perform exactly the -same sychronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache sychronization +same synchronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache synchronization might be a time consuming operation, especially if the buffers are large, so it is highly recommended to avoid it if possible. DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of diff --git a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX index a9248da5cdbc..ef2ccbf77fa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/timers/00-INDEX @@ -8,5 +8,9 @@ hpet_example.c - sample hpet timer test program hrtimers.txt - subsystem for high-resolution kernel timers +NO_HZ.txt + - Summary of the different methods for the scheduler clock-interrupts management. +timers-howto.txt + - how to insert delays in the kernel the right (tm) way. timer_stats.txt - timer usage statistics diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt index 8ec2a67c39b7..4cf53e406613 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Linux provides a number of functions for gadgets to use. Creating a gadget means deciding what configurations there will be and which functions each configuration will provide. -Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itslef nicely +Configfs (please see Documentation/filesystems/configfs/*) lends itself nicely for the purpose of telling the kernel about the above mentioned decision. This document is about how to do it. @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ directories must be created: $ mkdir configs/<name>.<number> where <name> can be any string which is legal in a filesystem and the -<numebr> is the configuration's number, e.g.: +<number> is the configuration's number, e.g.: $ mkdir configs/c.1 @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ from the buffer to the cs), but it is up to the implementer of the two functions to decide what they actually do. typedef struct configured_structure cs; -typedef struc specific_attribute sa; +typedef struct specific_attribute sa; sa +----------------------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX index 5481c8ba3412..a39d06680e1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX @@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ active_mm.txt - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm. balance - various information on memory balancing. -hugepage-mmap.c - - Example app using huge page memory with the mmap system call. -hugepage-shm.c - - Example app using huge page memory with Sys V shared memory system calls. +cleancache.txt + - Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache. +frontswap.txt + - Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend. +highmem.txt + - Outline of highmem and common issues. hugetlbpage.txt - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. hwpoison.txt @@ -16,21 +18,23 @@ ksm.txt - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature. locking - info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code. -map_hugetlb.c - - an example program that uses the MAP_HUGETLB mmap flag. numa - information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm. numa_memory_policy.txt - documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support. overcommit-accounting - description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes. -page-types.c - - Tool for querying page flags page_migration - description of page migration in NUMA systems. pagemap.txt - pagemap, from the userspace perspective slub.txt - a short users guide for SLUB. +soft-dirty.txt + - short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs +transhuge.txt + - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages. unevictable-lru.txt - Unevictable LRU infrastructure +zswap.txt + - Intro to compressed cache for swap pages |