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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 25 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fd8d0d594fc7..fcc22c982a25 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG -bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process. +bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the +soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details). To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process > echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs @@ -482,6 +483,10 @@ To clear the bits for the anonymous pages associated with the process To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process > echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + +To clear the soft-dirty bit + > echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 1f0ba30ae47e..f93a88250a44 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -559,7 +559,6 @@ your filesystem. The following members are defined: struct address_space_operations { int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc); int (*readpage)(struct file *, struct page *); - int (*sync_page)(struct page *); int (*writepages)(struct address_space *, struct writeback_control *); int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page); int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping, @@ -581,6 +580,9 @@ struct address_space_operations { /* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */ int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *); int (*launder_page) (struct page *); + int (*is_partially_uptodate) (struct page *, read_descriptor_t *, + unsigned long); + void (*is_dirty_writeback) (struct page *, bool *, bool *); int (*error_remove_page) (struct mapping *mapping, struct page *page); int (*swap_activate)(struct file *); int (*swap_deactivate)(struct file *); @@ -612,13 +614,6 @@ struct address_space_operations { In this case, the page will be relocated, relocked and if that all succeeds, ->readpage will be called again. - sync_page: called by the VM to notify the backing store to perform all - queued I/O operations for a page. I/O operations for other pages - associated with this address_space object may also be performed. - - This function is optional and is called only for pages with - PG_Writeback set while waiting for the writeback to complete. - writepages: called by the VM to write out pages associated with the address_space object. If wbc->sync_mode is WBC_SYNC_ALL, then the writeback_control will specify a range of pages that must be @@ -747,6 +742,20 @@ struct address_space_operations { prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole operation. + is_partially_uptodate: Called by the VM when reading a file through the + pagecache when the underlying blocksize != pagesize. If the required + block is up to date then the read can complete without needing the IO + to bring the whole page up to date. + + is_dirty_writeback: Called by the VM when attempting to reclaim a page. + The VM uses dirty and writeback information to determine if it needs + to stall to allow flushers a chance to complete some IO. Ordinarily + it can use PageDirty and PageWriteback but some filesystems have + more complex state (unstable pages in NFS prevent reclaim) or + do not set those flags due to locking problems (jbd). This callback + allows a filesystem to indicate to the VM if a page should be + treated as dirty or writeback for the purposes of stalling. + error_remove_page: normally set to generic_error_remove_page if truncation is ok for this address space. Used for memory failure handling. Setting this implies you deal with pages going away under you, |