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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/byteorder/generic.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h index 5fde6f4d6c1..04bd756efc6 100644 --- a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h +++ b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ * linux/byteorder_generic.h * Generic Byte-reordering support * + * The "... p" macros, like le64_to_cpup, can be used with pointers + * to unaligned data, but there will be a performance penalty on + * some architectures. Use get_unaligned for unaligned data. + * * Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> 19970707 * gathered all the good ideas from all asm-foo/byteorder.h into one file, * cleaned them up. diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 82d7024f076..097b3a3c693 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp); #define VM_EXEC 0x00000004 #define VM_SHARED 0x00000008 +/* mprotect() hardcodes VM_MAYREAD >> 4 == VM_READ, and so for r/w/x bits. */ #define VM_MAYREAD 0x00000010 /* limits for mprotect() etc */ #define VM_MAYWRITE 0x00000020 #define VM_MAYEXEC 0x00000040 @@ -350,7 +351,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page) * only one copy in memory, at most, normally. * * For the non-reserved pages, page_count(page) denotes a reference count. - * page_count() == 0 means the page is free. + * page_count() == 0 means the page is free. page->lru is then used for + * freelist management in the buddy allocator. * page_count() == 1 means the page is used for exactly one purpose * (e.g. a private data page of one process). * @@ -376,10 +378,8 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page) * attaches, plus 1 if `private' contains something, plus one for * the page cache itself. * - * All pages belonging to an inode are in these doubly linked lists: - * mapping->clean_pages, mapping->dirty_pages and mapping->locked_pages; - * using the page->list list_head. These fields are also used for - * freelist managemet (when page_count()==0). + * Instead of keeping dirty/clean pages in per address-space lists, we instead + * now tag pages as dirty/under writeback in the radix tree. * * There is also a per-mapping radix tree mapping index to the page * in memory if present. The tree is rooted at mapping->root. diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h index 425f58c8ea4..a6f03e47373 100644 --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -508,5 +508,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_keyctl(int cmd, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_set(int which, int who, int ioprio); asmlinkage long sys_ioprio_get(int which, int who); +asmlinkage long sys_set_mempolicy(int mode, unsigned long __user *nmask, + unsigned long maxnode); #endif |