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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index cf43bc4dbf31..a60fa516d4cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -638,3 +638,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead. inode to d_splice_alias() will also do the right thing (equivalent of d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL;), so that kind of special cases also doesn't need a separate treatment. +-- +[mandatory] + DCACHE_RCUACCESS is gone; having an RCU delay on dentry freeing is the + default. DCACHE_NORCU opts out, and only d_alloc_pseudo() has any + business doing so. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index ba8927c0d45c..a1b8e6d92298 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -3790,8 +3790,9 @@ The ioctl clears the dirty status of pages in a memory slot, according to the bitmap that is passed in struct kvm_clear_dirty_log's dirty_bitmap field. Bit 0 of the bitmap corresponds to page "first_page" in the memory slot, and num_pages is the size in bits of the input bitmap. -Both first_page and num_pages must be a multiple of 64. For each bit -that is set in the input bitmap, the corresponding page is marked "clean" +first_page must be a multiple of 64; num_pages must also be a multiple of +64 unless first_page + num_pages is the size of the memory slot. For each +bit that is set in the input bitmap, the corresponding page is marked "clean" in KVM's dirty bitmap, and dirty tracking is re-enabled for that page (for example via write-protection, or by clearing the dirty bit in a page table entry). |