From 529e55b6a57bda6df9e45eb268589efc70f63303 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:39:10 -0800 Subject: fb: defio nopage Convert fb defio from nopage to fault. Switch from OOM to SIGBUS if the resource is not available. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Jaya Kumar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/fb') diff --git a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt index 63883a8..7483283 100644 --- a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt +++ b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt @@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ IO. The following example may be a useful explanation of how one such setup works: - userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer -- deferred IO and driver sets up nopage and page_mkwrite handlers +- deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers - userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress -- we get pagefault and reach nopage handler -- nopage handler finds and returns physical page +- we get pagefault and reach fault handler +- fault handler finds and returns physical page - we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list - schedule a workqueue task to be run after a delay - app continues writing to that page with no additional cost. this is -- cgit v1.1