From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 09:34:30 -0700 Subject: USB file mmap In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20140707163430.GA1137@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 07:30:07PM +0530, Jeshwanth Kumar N K wrote: > Hello List, > I am trying to understand mmap on files residing in USB flash, so can you > please give a pointer from where I can start to understand this? I mean how it > works, and which part in kernel takes care of it. That's a _huge_ stack you are talking about here involving a vfs, the memory management core, a filesystem, block layer, SCSI, and USB, at the very least. What _exactly_ are you looking to understand here? And where in the code have you looked and need help with? What documents have you read that were unclear? And why do you need this information? greg k-h