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index 3c5434c83daf..ecad6ee75705 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address
do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and
low-memory pages.
-Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA
-aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support for 64 bit PCI.
+Note: Please refer to Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion
+on PCI high mem DMA aspects and mapping of scatter gather lists, and support
+for 64 bit PCI.
Special handling is required only for cases where i/o needs to happen on
pages at physical memory addresses beyond what the device can support. In these
@@ -953,14 +954,14 @@ elevator_allow_merge_fn called whenever the block layer determines
results in some sort of conflict internally,
this hook allows it to do that.
-elevator_dispatch_fn fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
+elevator_dispatch_fn* fills the dispatch queue with ready requests.
I/O schedulers are free to postpone requests by
not filling the dispatch queue unless @force
is non-zero. Once dispatched, I/O schedulers
are not allowed to manipulate the requests -
they belong to generic dispatch queue.
-elevator_add_req_fn called to add a new request into the scheduler
+elevator_add_req_fn* called to add a new request into the scheduler
elevator_queue_empty_fn returns true if the merge queue is empty.
Drivers shouldn't use this, but rather check
@@ -990,7 +991,7 @@ elevator_activate_req_fn Called when device driver first sees a request.
elevator_deactivate_req_fn Called when device driver decides to delay
a request by requeueing it.
-elevator_init_fn
+elevator_init_fn*
elevator_exit_fn Allocate and free any elevator specific storage
for a queue.