From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xip: export xip_file_fault
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:07:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E74B7A9.1070001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110917135346.GA31551@infradead.org>
Il 17/09/2011 15:53, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
>> From: Marco Stornelli<marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
>>
>> There aren't sufficient sync points for a fs for xip operations. In
>> particular for the mmap case. It can be not sufficient to lock/unlock
>> to do some operation inside get_xip_mem callback. For xip_file_read
>> it's really easy to write a fs specific wrapper, xip_file_write hold
>> i_mutex so no problem. With this patch it's possible to reuse the
>> generic xip_file_fault, using a wrapper function in a fs, without to
>> reinvent the wheel.
>
> As usual please send patches to add exports only while adding callers
> for it.
>
>
Actually the module is not currently in mainline even if I hope soon. No
problem. I'll resend it at the right moment.
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-17 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 12:18 [PATCH] xip: export xip_file_fault Marco Stornelli
2011-09-17 13:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-17 15:07 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
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