From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.242]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1KW2y9-00067t-Au for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:44:25 +0000 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so743764rvf.42 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48AD00C4.6060302@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:44:36 -0700 From: Jared Hulbert MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , tim.bird@AM.SONY.COM, cotte@de.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Subject: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: jaredeh@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I'd like to get a first round of review on my AXFS filesystem. This is a simple read only compressed filesystem like Squashfs and cramfs. AXFS is special because it also allows for execute-in-place of your applications. It is a major improvement over the cramfs XIP patches that have been floating around for ages. The biggest improvement is in the way AXFS allows for each page to be XIP or not. First, a user collects information about which pages are accessed on a compressed image for each mmap()ed region from /proc/axfs/volume0. That 'profile' is used as an input to the image builder. The resulting image has only the relevant pages uncompressed and XIP. The result is smaller memory sizes and faster launches. See http://axfs.sourceforge.net for more info. fs/Kconfig | 21 + fs/Makefile | 1 fs/axfs/Makefile | 7 fs/axfs/axfs_bdev.c | 158 ++++++++ fs/axfs/axfs_inode.c | 490 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/axfs/axfs_mtd.c | 233 ++++++++++++ fs/axfs/axfs_profiling.c | 594 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/axfs/axfs_super.c | 866 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/axfs/axfs_uml.c | 47 ++ fs/axfs/axfs_uncompress.c | 97 +++++ include/linux/axfs.h | 358 +++++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 2872 insertions(+)