From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: carsteno@de.ibm.com
Cc: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>,
"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
richard.griffiths@windriver.com,
"Richard Griffiths" <res07ml0@verizon.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@lazybastard.org>,
"Heiko Carstens" <h.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:49:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070615114913.GA30414@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46725A4D.1040404@de.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:22:21AM +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> Jared Hulbert wrote:
> >>If you're interrested in using the later for xip without
> >>struct page, I would volounteer to go ahead and implement this?
> >I'm very interested in this.
> Good. Let me see if I can come up with a patch on this.
That would be good.
> >I'm not opposed to using struct page, but I'm confused as to how to
> >start that. As I understand it, which is not well, defined a
> >CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM region to cover the Flash memory would add that to
> >my pool of RAM. That would be 'bad', right? I don't see how to
> >create the page structs and set this memory aside as different.
>
> I fear I am not the right person to answer that question. In the good
> old days before discontigmem/sparse mem/vmem map where invented we used
> to have a hack for that in arch/. Heiko then decided my hack is a
> mess and came up with a good solution to the problem.
I didn't say your old code was a hack. It just didn't work together with
the vmem map approach, so it had to be converted. Otherwise there wouldn't
be a 1:1 kernel mapping or struct pages for your memory region.
If you can write code that doesn't need any struct pages that would make
life a bit easier, since we wouldn't need any pseudo memory hotplug code
that just adds struct pages.
We would still need to add the kernel mapping though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 22:09 [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP Richard Griffiths
2007-05-22 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22 22:58 ` Richard Griffiths (wrs)
2007-05-23 7:51 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-23 15:25 ` Richard Griffiths (wrs)
2007-05-24 6:46 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-23 17:21 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-24 6:57 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-29 5:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-02 0:48 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-02 8:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-04 13:32 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 11:13 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 15:17 ` Richard Griffiths
2007-06-06 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 16:09 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 16:07 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 18:26 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 19:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 19:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 20:27 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:39 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-07 21:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 22:59 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 13:19 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 13:10 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-06 16:15 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 18:40 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 22:59 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-07 17:07 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-07 19:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 20:34 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:02 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:17 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 7:50 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 7:59 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:05 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 17:51 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 19:04 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 19:06 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 19:36 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-09 7:55 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-09 10:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 23:02 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 21:19 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 12:05 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 19:01 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 1:00 ` Justin Treon
2007-06-13 0:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-14 13:57 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-14 16:53 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-15 9:22 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 11:49 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2007-06-15 17:30 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-18 7:38 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 13:53 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 21:46 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-23 8:21 ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-05-24 20:22 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-24 20:52 ` Richard Griffiths
2007-05-24 21:21 ` Jared Hulbert
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2007-06-09 8:09 ` Carsten Otte
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