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Masami Hiramatsu b26486bf75 kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization 
Add documentations about kprobe jump optimization to
Documentation/kprobes.txt.

Changes in v10:
 - Editorial fixups by Jim Keniston.

Changes in v8:
 - Update documentation and benchmark results.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133504.6725.79395.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 17:49:27 +01:00
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ABI
USB: power management documentation update
2009-12-23 11:34:09 -08:00
accounting
Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS
2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
acpi
ACPI: support customizing ACPI control methods at runtime
2009-12-11 01:50:08 -05:00
aoe
aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
arm
OMAP: DSS2: Documentation for DSS2
2009-12-09 12:04:34 +02:00
auxdisplay
includecheck fix: Documentation, cfag12864b-example.c
2009-09-24 07:20:57 -07:00
blackfin
Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API
2009-12-15 00:15:04 -05:00
block
Documentation: Rename Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
blockdev
The DRBD driver
2009-10-01 21:17:49 +02:00
cdrom
debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
cgroups
blkio: Documentation
2009-12-03 19:28:53 +01:00
connector
connector: Provide the sender's credentials to the callback
2009-10-02 10:54:01 -07:00
console
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cpu-freq
[ACPI/CPUFREQ] Introduce bios_limit per cpu cpufreq sysfs interface
2009-11-24 13:33:34 -05:00
cpuidle
cpuidle: Add Documentation
2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
cris
fix random typos
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
crypto
async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations
2009-08-29 19:09:27 -07:00
development-process
docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document
2009-06-04 10:32:49 -06:00
device-mapper
dm snapshot: add merge target
2009-12-10 23:52:30 +00:00
DocBook
DocBook: fix ioremap return type
2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
driver-model
Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
dvb
tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
early-userspace
Documentation: Remove last references to BitKeeper.
2008-04-21 22:19:05 +00:00
fault-injection
debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
fb
viafb: documentation update
2009-12-16 07:20:05 -08:00
filesystems
proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"
2010-01-11 09:34:06 -08:00
firmware_class
driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait
2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
frv
move frv docs one level up
2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
hwmon
Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging
2010-01-11 09:45:55 -08:00
i2c
i2c: Get rid of struct i2c_client_address_data
2009-12-14 21:17:25 +01:00
i2o
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ia64
Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS
2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
ide
ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
2009-06-07 13:52:52 +02:00
infiniband
IB: Fix typo in ipoib.txt
2009-12-09 14:21:36 -08:00
input
Input: add new driver for Sentelic Finger Sensing Pad
2009-08-19 21:46:09 -07:00
ioctl
docs: large update to ioctl-number.txt
2010-01-11 09:34:04 -08:00
isdn
gigaset: documentation amendments
2009-12-08 20:30:41 -08:00
ja_JP
block: rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF
2009-06-19 08:08:50 +02:00
kbuild
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
kdump
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
ko_KR
HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected
2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
kvm
KVM: x86: Extend KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with selective updates
2009-12-27 13:36:33 -02:00
laptops
thinkpad-acpi: update volume subdriver documentation
2009-12-26 22:37:58 -05:00
lguest
tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
m68k
[SCSI] 53c7xx: fix removal fallout
2008-01-11 18:22:30 -06:00
make
Documentation/make/headers_install.txt
2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
mips
ide: remove unused CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_AU1XXX_SEQTS_PER_RQ
2009-01-14 19:19:03 +01:00
misc-devices
ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers
2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
mn10300
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
mtd
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
namespaces
The namespaces compatibility list doc
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
netlabel
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networking
Documentation/3c509: document ethtool support
2010-01-11 15:53:45 -08:00
parisc
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PCI
Documentation: Rename Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
pcmcia
pcmcia: remove now-defunct cs_error, pcmcia_error_{func,ret}
2009-11-09 08:30:06 +01:00
power
PM: Runtime PM documentation update
2009-12-22 20:43:40 +01:00
powerpc
Merge commit 'kumar/next' into merge
2009-12-21 09:30:42 +11:00
pps
LinuxPPS: core support
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
prctl
generic, x86: add tests for prctl PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC
2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
RCU
rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited() to the documentation
2009-10-26 09:40:31 +01:00
s390
[S390] s390dbf: Add description for usage of "%s" in sprintf events
2009-09-11 10:29:53 +02:00
scheduler
sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version
2009-06-21 13:12:46 +02:00
scsi
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
2009-12-09 19:43:33 -08:00
serial
tty: docs: serial/tty, add to ldisc methods
2009-12-11 15:18:05 -08:00
sh
sh: Kill off remaining CONFIG_SH_KGDB bits.
2008-12-22 18:44:05 +09:00
sound
ALSA: Fix a typo in Procfile.txt
2009-12-26 18:37:44 +01:00
sparc
sparc: Remove Documentation/sparc/sbus_drivers.txt
2008-08-29 02:15:25 -07:00
spi
tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place
2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
sysctl
doc: Add documentation for bootloader_{type,version}
2009-12-11 14:28:56 -08:00
telephony
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
thermal
thermal: add sanity check for the passive attribute
2009-11-05 18:18:10 -05:00
timers
fix URL in hpet.txt
2009-11-09 09:40:54 +01:00
trace
kprobetrace, doc: Add the explanation to remove probe points
2010-01-20 07:18:15 +01:00
uml
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usb
USB: power management documentation update
2009-12-23 11:34:09 -08:00
video4linux
V4L/DVB (13651): sh_mobile_ceu_camera: document the scaling and cropping algorithm
2009-12-16 09:27:20 -02:00
vm
HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentation
2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
w1
ds2482: Discard obsolete detect method
2009-10-04 22:53:41 +02:00
watchdog
Documentation/: fix warnings from -Wmissing-prototypes in HOSTCFLAGS
2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
wimax
i2400m: documentation and instructions for usage
2009-01-07 10:00:18 -08:00
x86
USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp
2009-09-23 06:46:39 -07:00
zh_CN
Chinese: add translation of Codingstyle
2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
00-INDEX
Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver
2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
applying-patches.txt
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atomic_ops.txt
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: fix sample code
2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
bad_memory.txt
Document handling of bad memory
2008-12-03 16:09:53 -07:00
basic_profiling.txt
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binfmt_misc.txt
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braille-console.txt
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
bt8xxgpio.txt
gpio: add bt8xxgpio driver
2008-07-25 10:53:30 -07:00
btmrvl.txt
Bluetooth: Add documentation for Marvell Bluetooth driver
2009-08-22 14:25:32 -07:00
BUG-HUNTING
Documentation: add hint about call traces & module symbols to BUG-HUNTING
2008-02-06 10:41:09 -08:00
cachetlb.txt
remove unused flush_tlb_pgtables
2007-10-19 11:53:34 -07:00
Changes
netfilter: xtables: document minimal required version
2009-12-14 14:52:10 +01:00
CodingStyle
trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments.
2009-06-12 18:01:46 +02:00
cpu-hotplug.txt
cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
2009-12-17 11:43:29 +10:30
cpu-load.txt
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cputopology.txt
Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/ topology files
2009-10-30 14:59:52 -07:00
credentials.txt
CRED: Documentation
2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
dcdbas.txt
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debugging-modules.txt
Documentation: Clarify when module debugging actually works.
2008-02-03 15:27:38 +02:00
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
ieee1394: update URLs in debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
2009-10-03 09:28:11 +02:00
dell_rbu.txt
trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos
2009-06-12 18:01:50 +02:00
devices.txt
lanana: assign a device name and numbering for MAX3100
2009-04-07 08:44:05 -07:00
DMA-API.txt
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
DMA-attributes.txt
powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code
2008-07-22 10:39:36 +10:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
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dmaengine.txt
async_tx, dmaengine: document channel allocation and api rework
2009-01-05 18:10:19 -07:00
dontdiff
dontdiff: add generated
2009-12-12 13:08:13 +01:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt
Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
edac.txt
fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt
2009-12-04 15:39:53 +01:00
eisa.txt
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email-clients.txt
Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmail
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt
feature-removal-schedule: Add v4l1 drivers obsoleted by gspca sub drivers
2010-01-17 11:31:35 -02:00
flexible-arrays.txt
Update flex_arrays.txt
2009-10-15 07:25:20 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt
futex: add requeue-pi documentation
2009-05-09 07:12:50 +02:00
gcov.txt
trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
gpio.txt
gpiolib: add support for changing value polarity in sysfs
2009-12-16 07:20:01 -08:00
highuid.txt
[SPARC]: Remove SunOS and Solaris binary support.
2008-04-21 15:10:15 -07:00
HOWTO
Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
hw_random.txt
hw_random doc updates
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
initrd.txt
use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs
2008-02-03 14:54:41 +02:00
intel_txt.txt
x86, intel_txt: Intel TXT boot support
2009-07-21 11:49:06 -07:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt
intel-iommu: Kill DMAR_BROKEN_GFX_WA option.
2009-09-19 09:37:23 -07:00
io_ordering.txt
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io-mapping.txt
io mapping: improve documentation
2008-11-03 18:21:44 +01:00
IO-mapping.txt
Documentation: fix ioremap return type
2010-01-02 10:09:44 -08:00
iostats.txt
Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
IPMI.txt
IPMI: new NMI handling
2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
genirq: Expose default irq affinity mask (take 3)
2008-06-05 15:18:30 +02:00
IRQ.txt
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irqflags-tracing.txt
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isapnp.txt
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java.txt
Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
2007-10-20 02:37:21 +02:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
documentation: update kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO information
2010-01-11 09:34:07 -08:00
kernel-docs.txt
doc: update to URL and status of kernel-docs.txt entry
2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
kernel-parameters.txt
ACPI: introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable
2009-12-30 18:32:01 -05:00
keys-request-key.txt
keys: allow the callout data to be passed as a blob rather than a string
2008-04-29 08:06:16 -07:00
keys.txt
KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
2009-09-02 21:29:22 +10:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemcheck: update documentation
2009-07-01 22:36:22 +02:00
kmemleak.txt
kmemleak: add clear command support
2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
kobject.txt
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
kprobes.txt
kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization
2010-02-25 17:49:27 +01:00
kref.txt
kref: double kref_put() in my_data_handler()
2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
ldm.txt
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leds-class.txt
led: document sysfs interface
2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
leds-lp3944.txt
leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip
2009-06-23 20:21:38 +01:00
local_ops.txt
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
lockdep-design.txt
lockdep: Fix typos in documentation
2009-08-07 12:03:46 +02:00
lockstat.txt
lockstat: Add usage info to Documentation/lockstat.txt
2009-12-06 13:20:02 +01:00
logo.gif
Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"
2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
logo.txt
Revert "linux.conf.au 2009: Tuz"
2009-04-27 12:00:27 -07:00
magic-number.txt
documentation: update header file paths
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Makefile
docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
2008-08-12 16:07:30 -07:00
ManagementStyle
docs: fix ManagementStyle book name
2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
mca.txt
The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
md.txt
md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attribute
2009-12-14 12:58:57 +11:00
memory-barriers.txt
sched: Document memory barriers implied by sleep/wake-up primitives
2009-04-29 14:15:55 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt
mm: add numa node symlink for memory section in sysfs
2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
memory.txt
Documentation/memory.txt: remove some very outdated recommendations
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
mono.txt
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mutex-design.txt
Documentation: Add nested versions of mutex locks to docs
2007-10-20 00:15:26 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt
x86, nmi-watchdog: update procfs nmi_watchdog file documentation v2
2008-10-30 19:07:04 +01:00
nommu-mmap.txt
nommu: fix malloc performance by adding uninitialized flag
2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
numastat.txt
mm: fix NUMA accounting in numastat.txt
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
oops-tracing.txt
docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txt
2009-11-09 09:40:56 +01:00
parport-lowlevel.txt
plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter
2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
parport.txt
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pi-futex.txt
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pnp.txt
Documentation: Replace obsolete "driverfs" with "sysfs".
2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
preempt-locking.txt
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printk-formats.txt
DOC: add printk-formats.txt
2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
prio_tree.txt
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rbtree.txt
trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
rfkill.txt
rfkill: export persistent attribute in sysfs
2009-06-19 11:50:18 -04:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt
futex: documentation: fix inconsistent description of futex list_op_pending
2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
robust-futexes.txt
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rt-mutex-design.txt
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rt-mutex.txt
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rtc.txt
rtc: add boot_timesource sysfs attribute
2009-09-23 07:39:46 -07:00
SAK.txt
Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SecurityBugs
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SELinux.txt
selinux: add support for installing a dummy policy (v2)
2008-08-27 08:54:08 +10:00
serial-console.txt
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sgi-ioc4.txt
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sgi-visws.txt
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slow-work.txt
SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
SM501.txt
trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes
2009-06-12 18:01:47 +02:00
Smack.txt
smack: implement logging V3
2009-04-14 09:00:23 +10:00
sparse.txt
Documentation: explain the difference between __bitwise and __bitwise__
2009-04-11 08:18:11 +02:00
spinlocks.txt
Documentation: rw_lock lessons learned
2009-12-14 09:46:56 -08:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt
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stable_kernel_rules.txt
Doc/stable rules: add new cherry-pick logic
2009-12-23 11:23:43 -08:00
SubmitChecklist
doc: SubmitChecklist, add ioctls, remove OSDL reference
2009-12-16 07:20:06 -08:00
SubmittingDrivers
Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
SubmittingPatches
docs: update patch size in SubmittingPatches
2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00
svga.txt
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sysfs-rules.txt
Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense
2009-05-08 19:22:20 -07:00
sysrq.txt
sysrq, kdump: make sysrq-c consistent
2009-07-29 19:10:36 -07:00
tomoyo.txt
tomoyo: add Documentation/tomoyo.txt
2009-04-14 09:14:58 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
2008-07-25 10:53:27 -07:00
unicode.txt
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unshare.txt
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VGA-softcursor.txt
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vgaarbiter.txt
vgaarbiter: fix a typo in the vgaarbiter Documentation
2009-12-16 11:28:58 -08:00
video-output.txt
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volatile-considered-harmful.txt
Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
voyager.txt
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zorro.txt
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