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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-07-04 07:13:18 +0900 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2009-07-04 07:13:18 +0900 |
| commit | c43768cbb7655ea5ff782ae250f6e2ef4297cf98 (patch) | |
| tree | 3982e41dde3eecaa3739a5d1a8ed18d04bd74f01 /Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt | |
| parent | 1a8dd307cc0a2119be4e578c517795464e6dabba (diff) | |
| parent | 746a99a5af60ee676afa2ba469ccd1373493c7e7 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes. As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.
Conflicts:
arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
include/linux/percpu-defs.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt index e8ca040ba2c..2d735b0ae38 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ encouraged them to allow separation of the data and integrity metadata scatter-gather lists. The controller will interleave the buffers on write and split them on -read. This means that the Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from +read. This means that Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from host memory without changes to the page cache. Also, the 16-bit CRC checksum mandated by both the SCSI and SATA specs @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ software RAID5). The IP checksum is weaker than the CRC in terms of detecting bit errors. However, the strength is really in the separation of the data -buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers much +buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers must match up for an I/O to complete. The separation of the data and integrity metadata buffers as well as |