The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
proc_doulongvec_minmax – read a vector of long integers with min/max values Synopsis int proc_doulongvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position…
proc_douintvec – read a vector of unsigned integers Synopsis int proc_douintvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position Description Reads/writes up…
proc_dostring – read a string sysctl Synopsis int proc_dostring(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position Description Reads/writes a string from/to…
proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies – read a vector of integers as 1/USER_HZ seconds Synopsis int proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos pointer to the…
proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies – read a vector of integers as 1 milliseconds Synopsis int proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos the current position…
proc_dointvec_minmax – read a vector of integers with min/max values Synopsis int proc_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position Description…
proc_dointvec_jiffies – read a vector of integers as seconds Synopsis int proc_dointvec_jiffies(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position Description Reads/writes…
proc_dointvec – read a vector of integers Synopsis int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos); Arguments table the sysctl table write TRUE if this is a write to the sysctl file buffer the user buffer lenp the size of the user buffer ppos file position Description Reads/writes up to…
posix_unblock_lock – stop waiting for a file lock Synopsis int posix_unblock_lock(struct file_lock *waiter); Arguments waiter the lock which was waiting Description lockd needs to block waiting for locks. Copyright
posix_lock_inode_wait – Apply a POSIX-style lock to a file Synopsis int posix_lock_inode_wait(struct inode *inode, struct file_lock *fl); Arguments inode inode of file to which lock request should be applied fl The lock to be applied Description Apply a POSIX style lock request to an inode. Copyright
posix_lock_file – Apply a POSIX-style lock to a file Synopsis int posix_lock_file(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl, struct file_lock *conflock); Arguments filp The file to apply the lock to fl The lock to be applied conflock Place to return a copy of the conflicting lock, if found. Description Add a POSIX style lock to a…
pipe_buf_steal – attempt to take ownership of a pipe_buffer Synopsis int pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf); Arguments pipe the pipe that the buffer belongs to buf the buffer to attempt to steal Copyright
pipe_buf_release – put a reference to a pipe_buffer Synopsis void pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf); Arguments pipe the pipe that the buffer belongs to buf the buffer to put a reference to Copyright
pipe_buf_get – get a reference to a pipe_buffer Synopsis void pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf); Arguments pipe the pipe that the buffer belongs to buf the buffer to get a reference to Copyright
pipe_buf_confirm – verify contents of the pipe buffer Synopsis int pipe_buf_confirm(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf); Arguments pipe the pipe that the buffer belongs to buf the buffer to confirm Copyright
piix_set_piomode – Initialize host controller PATA PIO timings Synopsis void piix_set_piomode(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *adev); Arguments ap Port whose timings we are configuring adev Drive in question Description Set PIO mode for device, in host controller PCI config space. LOCKING: None (inherited from caller). Author Jeff Garzik Author. Copyright
piix_set_dmamode – Initialize host controller PATA DMA timings Synopsis void piix_set_dmamode(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_device *adev); Arguments ap Port whose timings we are configuring adev um Description Set MW/UDMA mode for device, in host controller PCI config space. LOCKING: None (inherited from caller). Author Jeff Garzik Author. Copyright
piix_pata_prereset – prereset for PATA host controller Synopsis int piix_pata_prereset(struct ata_link *link, unsigned long deadline); Arguments link Target link deadline deadline jiffies for the operation Description LOCKING: None (inherited from caller). Author Jeff Garzik Author. Copyright
piix_init_one – Register PIIX ATA PCI device with kernel services Synopsis int piix_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent); Arguments pdev PCI device to register ent Entry in piix_pci_tbl matching with pdev Description Called from kernel PCI layer. We probe for combined mode (sigh), and then hand over control to libata, for it to do…
piix_check_450nx_errata – Check for problem 450NX setup Synopsis int piix_check_450nx_errata(struct pci_dev *ata_dev); Arguments ata_dev the PCI device to check Description Check for the present of 450NX errata #19 and errata #25. If they are found return an error code so we can turn off DMA Author Jeff Garzik Author. Copyright