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Message-ID: <20070608075717.GA16927@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:57:17 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: carsteno@...ibm.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@...il.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
richard.griffiths@...driver.com,
Richard Griffiths <res07ml0@...izon.net>,
Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:50:17AM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> I see your poing with regard to layering, and I agree to it.
> In order to do ioremap/iounmap at least we need a counterpart
> put_xip_page thing to do iounmap in that path. Our dcss segments on
> 390 did not raise that requirement: they had a permanent kernel mapping.
> The quiz question to me is: why don't we establish a permanenet
> mapping of the entire thing from mount() to unmount(). That eliminates
> the need to do iomap/iounmap, eliminates the need to have
> put_xip_page, and eliminates to care about what layer would do this.
> Would work for cramfs, won't work for read+write flash filesystems.
Jared's patch currently does ioremap on mount (and no iounmap at all).
That mapping needs to move from the filesystem to the device driver.
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