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Message-ID: <48D76770.9000808@coritel.it> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:37:52 +0200 From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...itel.it> To: mtk.manpages@...il.com, rdunlap@...otime.net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] documentation: xip documentation update From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com> xip documentation updated Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com> --- --- linux-2.6.26.5/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt.orig 2008-08-20 20:11:37.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.26.5/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt 2008-09-22 11:27:46.000000000 +0200 @@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional, today: - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver -An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference -to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space, -and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the -function should allocate blocks if needed. +An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve reference +to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference +to an address_space is provided. This function is in charge to assign values to +the pointers kmem and pfn. The 3rd argument indicates whether the function +should allocate blocks if needed. This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that do page cache read/write operations. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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