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Kernel v2.6.25-rc7 /Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt

Filename:/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
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Also changed in: (Previous) 2.6.25-rc6  2.6.25-rc5  2.6.25-rc4  2.6.25-rc3  2.6.25-rc2  2.6.25-rc1 
(Following) 2.6.25-rc8  2.6.25-rc9  2.6.25 

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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
index 63883a8..7483283 100644
--- a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ IO. The following example may be a useful explanation of how one such setup
 works:
 
 - userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer
-- deferred IO and driver sets up nopage and page_mkwrite handlers
+- deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers
 - userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress
-- we get pagefault and reach nopage handler
-- nopage handler finds and returns physical page
+- we get pagefault and reach fault handler
+- fault handler finds and returns physical page
 - we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list
 - schedule a workqueue task to be run after a delay
 - app continues writing to that page with no additional cost. this is


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