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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel@collabora.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, jaegeuk@kernel.org,
	chao@kernel.org, krisman@collabora.com, ebiggers@google.com,
	drosen@google.com, ebiggers@kernel.org, yuchao0@huawei.com,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@collabora.com,
	andre.almeida@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/4] fs: unicode: Add utf8 module and a unicode layer
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:29:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210427062907.GA1564326@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210423205136.1015456-5-shreeya.patel@collabora.com>

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 02:21:36AM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> utf8data.h_shipped has a large database table which is an auto-generated
> decodification trie for the unicode normalization functions.
> We can avoid carrying this large table in the kernel unless it is required
> by the filesystem during boot process.
> 
> Hence, make UTF-8 encoding loadable by converting it into a module and
> also add built-in UTF-8 support option for compiling it into the
> kernel whenever required by the filesystem.

The way this is implemement looks rather awkward.

Given that the large memory usage is for a data table and not for code,
why not treat is as a firmware blob and load it using request_firmware?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-27  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-23 20:51 [PATCH v8 0/4] Make UTF-8 encoding loadable Shreeya Patel
2021-04-23 20:51 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] fs: unicode: Use strscpy() instead of strncpy() Shreeya Patel
2021-04-23 20:51 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] fs: unicode: Rename function names from utf8 to unicode Shreeya Patel
2021-04-23 20:51 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] fs: unicode: Rename utf8-core file to unicode-core Shreeya Patel
2021-04-23 20:51 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] fs: unicode: Add utf8 module and a unicode layer Shreeya Patel
2021-04-27  6:29   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-27 10:09     ` Shreeya Patel
2021-04-27 14:50       ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-27 15:06         ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2021-04-28 14:12           ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-28 18:58             ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
     [not found]               ` <7caab939-2800-0cc2-7b65-345af3fce73d@collabora.com>
2021-05-11  4:35                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-20 20:19                   ` Shreeya Patel
2021-06-03  0:07                     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2021-06-16  4:09                       ` Christoph Hellwig

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