On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote: > I could not find a description about the state TASK_KILLABLE as > well. May be this can be added in chapter related to process > management. ok. and for further credit, when people find stuff like this and they have the time, dig into it further and see *why* that feature isn't mentioned in LKD3. it's entirely possible that it was too obscure to merit inclusion so it was a *deliberate* omission. on the other hand, maybe it really *is* new and should be documented. and if it's new, is there a git commit that represents its addition to the source? and might there have been other features that came with it that should be documented at the same time? etc, etc. so if you have the time and the curiosity, don't just note that something isn't mentioned in LKD3 -- take a minute or two to ask *why* and see if you can't document it further. and if you document it suitably, i'll add it to my page: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Updates_to_LKD3 and credit you with authorship (give or take a bit of editing on my part). rday p.s. there are a number of macros/routines that aren't mentioned that should be described in the MM chapter that relate to allocating space and zeroing it out simultaneously. first, in <linux/gfh.h>, there's the list of action modifiers, where __GFP_ZERO isn't mentioned in the book. based on that action modifier, there are zero-filled equivalents to some of the standard allocation routines: kmalloc -> kzalloc vmalloc -> vzalloc and so on. i'll be documenting that in a bit, there's quite a bit more that can be discussed there. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
