On 4/2/20 5:46 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2020-04-01 19:08, Mike Christie wrote:
>> +.TP
>> +.B PR_GET_IO_FLUSHER (Since Linux 5.6)
>> +Return as the function result 1 if the caller is in the IO_FLUSHER state and
>> +0 if not.
>
> Although I'm not at all a language expert, the word order at the start
> of the above sentence seems a bit weird to me?
Thanks for spotting that Bart. I changed the text to:
If a user process is involved in the block layer or
filesystem I/O path, and can allocate memory while process‐
ing I/O requests it must set arg2 to 1. This will put the
process in the IO_FLUSHER state, which allows it special
treatment to make progress when allocating memory. If arg2
is 0, the process will clear the IO_FLUSHER state, and the
default behavior will be used.
Cheers,
Michael
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