Re: [PATCH][MTD] mtdpart.c: allow other drivers to get physical address of partition

[Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>]

Jared Hulbert wrote:
> Maybe I wasn't so clear.  Assuming the MTD is going to do an erase you would:
> 
> (a) zap all page affected by block erase
> (b) identify all pte's mapped to the affected region
> (c) modify these pte's so they now trigger a fault
> (d) wait for completion of erase
> (c) reestablish valid pte mappings
Ah. Now I can see the light. Sounds like an acceptable approach to me.

> If you get a fault it gets routed to the filesystem .fault or
> something like that.  The .fault routine can:
> (a) suspend the erase
> (b) copy the page to RAM
> (c) update the pte to point to RAM
> (d) resume the erase
> -or-
> (a) suspend the erase
> (b) reenable the pte
> (c) wait a short time
> (d) disable pte again
> (e) resume the erase
Why don't we wait til the erase is completed?

so long,
Carsten