Dan Williams
2424b5dd06
sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
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Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12. It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.
Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value. The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations. Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
..
configfs
correct missing a double quote in configfs.txt
2008-02-03 16:10:08 +02:00
00-INDEX
Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
9p.txt
9p: add virtio transport
2007-10-23 13:47:31 -05:00
adfs.txt
Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt
[PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections
2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
afs.txt
[AFS]: Update the AFS fs documentation.
2007-04-26 15:57:43 -07:00
automount-support.txt
VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs()
2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt
Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'
2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt
[PATCH] update Tigran's email addresses
2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
cifs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
coda.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cramfs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dentry-locking.txt
[PATCH] VFS: split dentry locking documentation
2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
directory-locking
Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_sem
2007-05-24 10:16:17 -07:00
dlmfs.txt
Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
dnotify.txt
Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
ecryptfs.txt
eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/
2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Exporting
exportfs: update documentation
2007-10-22 08:13:21 -07:00
ext2.txt
Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'
2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt
documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
2007-10-20 02:38:36 +02:00
ext4.txt
ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4
2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
files.txt
Documentation/filesystems/files.txt: remove rcuref_inc_lf() reverences
2007-10-20 01:47:49 +02:00
fuse.txt
[PATCH] fuse: fix typo
2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2.txt
[GFS2] Update documentation
2006-04-25 15:44:04 -04:00
hfs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hfsplus.txt
Documentation: document HFSPlus
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
hpfs.txt
misc doc and kconfig typos
2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
inotify.txt
[PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation
2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
isofs.txt
isofs: implement dmode option
2008-02-08 09:22:38 -08:00
jfs.txt
JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt
2007-03-09 10:27:31 -06:00
Locking
iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
locks.txt
Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/
2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
mandatory-locking.txt
locks: add warning about mandatory locking races
2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
ncpfs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
nfsroot.txt
Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
ntfs.txt
NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock.
2007-10-12 09:16:30 -07:00
ocfs2.txt
[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock()
2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
porting
iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
2008-02-07 08:42:29 -08:00
proc.txt
laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/
2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
quota.txt
quota: send messages via netlink
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
Documentation: fix type error
2008-02-03 14:50:11 +02:00
relay.txt
doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint
2008-02-03 16:30:51 +02:00
romfs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
rpc-cache.txt
Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
seq_file.txt
Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
2008-04-15 19:35:40 -07:00
sharedsubtree.txt
Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
smbfs.txt
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spufs.txt
Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt
Fix typos concerning hierarchy
2007-02-17 19:23:03 +01:00
sysfs.txt
sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
sysv-fs.txt
[PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup
2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt
mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes online
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
udf.txt
[PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support
2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt
[PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw
2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
vfat.txt
fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
vfs.txt
mount options: add documentation
2008-02-08 09:22:39 -08:00
xfs.txt
[XFS] Update XFS documentation for noikeep/ikeep.
2008-04-18 12:18:42 +10:00
xip.txt
misc doc and kconfig typos
2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00