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The "flush" or "flush_on_suspend" messages flush the whole cache. However, these flushing methods can take some time and the process is left in an interruptible state during the flush. Implement a "cleaner" option that offers an alternate flushing method. When this option is activated (either by a message or in the constructor arguments), the cache will not promote new writes (however, writes to already cached blocks are promoted, to avoid data corruption due to misordered writes) and it will gradually writeback any cached data. The userspace can then monitor the cleaning process with "dmsetup status". When the number of cached bloks drops to zero, the userspace can unload the dm-writecache target and replace it with dm-linear or other targets. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.