linux/Documentation/powerpc
Matthew R. Ochs cd34af40a0 scsi: cxlflash: Transition to application close model
Caching the adapter file descriptor and performing a close on behalf of
an application is a poor design. This is due to the fact that once a
file descriptor in installed, it is free to be altered without the
knowledge of the cxlflash driver. This can lead to inconsistencies
between the application and kernel. Furthermore, the nature of the
former design is more exploitable and thus should be abandoned.

To support applications performing a close on the adapter file that is
associated with a context, a new flag is introduced to the user API to
indicate to applications that they are responsible for the close
following the cleanup (detach) of a context. The documentation is also
updated to reflect this change in behavior.

Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-08-23 22:23:41 -04:00
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00-INDEX powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR support 2015-06-07 19:29:27 +10:00
bootwrapper.txt
cpu_families.txt powerpc: Add cpu family documentation 2014-06-05 13:20:01 +10:00
cpu_features.txt Documentation/powerpc: Fix path to the powerpc directory 2013-01-10 17:01:50 +11:00
cxl.txt cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest 2016-03-09 23:39:56 +11:00
cxlflash.txt scsi: cxlflash: Transition to application close model 2016-08-23 22:23:41 -04:00
dscr.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt powerpc/eeh: rename EEH from "extended" to "enhanced" error handling 2016-04-11 20:30:42 +10:00
firmware-assisted-dump.txt fadump: Add documentation for firmware-assisted dump. 2012-02-23 10:50:00 +11:00
hvcs.txt
mpc52xx.txt Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup 2012-03-18 23:59:34 +01:00
pci_iov_resource_on_powernv.txt powerpc/pci: Add PCI resource alignment documentation 2015-03-31 13:02:38 +11:00
pmu-ebb.txt powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s 2013-07-01 11:50:10 +10:00
ptrace.txt powerpc/ptrace: Add DAWR debug feature info for userspace 2013-04-18 15:59:55 +10:00
qe_firmware.txt Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc 2015-07-10 14:00:51 -06:00
transactional_memory.txt powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions 2015-06-19 17:10:28 +10:00