Re: XIP aware file system

David Woodhouse
2005-02-15T17:36:29Z

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:38 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Please study carefully xip_udelay() and try to understand _when_ it is
> OK to call other functions and when it is not. This function is really
> where all the magic is happening.

Out of interest, how do we guarantee that there won't be speculative
prefetching of icache? If you're relying on hardware-specific knowledge
that it doesn't happen, please document that so that it doesn't bite
people implementing the XIP primitives on other platforms.

--
dwmw2