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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-25 13:08:16 +0200 |
| commit | 10a010f6953b5a14ba2f0be40a4fce1bea220875 (patch) | |
| tree | 19aadf718c796bc7fae0a1a1c970d84d67c541d4 /fs/sync.c | |
| parent | 510b37258dfd61693ca6c039865c78bd996e3718 (diff) | |
| parent | fb2e405fc1fc8b20d9c78eaa1c7fd5a297efde43 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:
drivers/pci/dmar.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sync.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index 228e17b5e9e..2967562d416 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fdatasync(unsigned int fd) * before performing the write. * * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: initiate writeout of all those dirty pages in the - * range which are not presently under writeback. + * range which are not presently under writeback. Note that this may block for + * significant periods due to exhaustion of disk request structures. * * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER: wait upon writeout of all pages in the range * after performing the write. |