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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 20:50:29 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-09 20:50:29 +0200
commit2f4084209adc77f9a1c9f38db3019a509e167882 (patch)
tree775657114c885505ecc46605e29ea1470e986f76 /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/air... (diff)
parentcfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (34 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix the incorrect timeslice accounting with forced_dispatch loop: Update mtime when writing using aops block: expose the statistics in blkio.time and blkio.sectors for the root cgroup backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure Block: Fix block/elevator.c elevator_get() off-by-one error drbd: lc_element_by_index() never returns NULL cciss: unlock on error path cfq-iosched: Do not merge queues of BE and IDLE classes cfq-iosched: Add additional blktrace log messages in CFQ for easier debugging i2o: Remove the dangerous kobj_to_i2o_device macro block: remove 16 bytes of padding from struct request on 64bits cfq-iosched: fix a kbuild regression block: make CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP visible Remove GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS block: Export max number of segments and max segment size in sysfs block: Finalize conversion of block limits functions block: Fix overrun in lcm() and move it to lib vfs: improve writeback_inodes_wb() paride: fix off-by-one test drbd: fix al-to-on-disk-bitmap for 4k logical_block_size ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
index 8bca1d5cec09..e8473eae2a20 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl
@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@
</address>
</affiliation>
</author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>William</firstname>
+ <surname>Cohen</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <address>
+ <email>wcohen@redhat.com</email>
+ </address>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
</authorgroup>
<legalnotice>
@@ -91,4 +100,8 @@
!Iinclude/trace/events/signal.h
</chapter>
+ <chapter id="block">
+ <title>Block IO</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/block.h
+ </chapter>
</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 6fab97ea7e6b..508b5b2b0289 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -1162,8 +1162,8 @@ where a driver received a request ala this before:
As mentioned, there is no virtual mapping of a bio. For DMA, this is
not a problem as the driver probably never will need a virtual mapping.
-Instead it needs a bus mapping (pci_map_page for a single segment or
-use blk_rq_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
+Instead it needs a bus mapping (dma_map_page for a single segment or
+use dma_map_sg for scatter gather) to be able to ship it to the driver. For
PIO drivers (or drivers that need to revert to PIO transfer once in a
while (IDE for example)), where the CPU is doing the actual data
transfer a virtual mapping is needed. If the driver supports highmem I/O,