Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754252AbXLGDWh (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:22:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752975AbXLGDW1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:22:27 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:65501 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752854AbXLGDW0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:22:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=C83U3yJBmOxkxgd2MLHcTbsW0CQtildHngqQf02KKiiUfKVD8sB/FHjJtoTQ0jih/S999bWB7Jw2Oh6gp+ktmJcOx0eLbkESoIEJLYvlrpIqgHc0Lp8nNsyAOCJfSnx63OW8jiTN374ZDSrrOJcE/eB1QogH+WkwCQykGqcSYY8= Message-ID: <6934efce0712061922j682cee55pc1d5d079465f4849@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:22:25 -0800 From: "Jared Hulbert" To: "Rob Landley" Subject: Re: [patch] ext2: xip check fix Cc: carsteno@de.ibm.com, "Nick Piggin" , "Christian Borntraeger" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , "Andrew Morton" , "Jens Axboe" In-Reply-To: <200712061211.49443.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071204042628.GA26636@wotan.suse.de> <20071206101848.GC25202@wotan.suse.de> <4757CDD4.5090606@de.ibm.com> <200712061211.49443.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 801 Lines: 16 > > I have'nt looked at it yet. I do appreciate it, I think it might > > broaden the user-base of this feature which is up to now s390 only due > > to the fact that the flash memory extensions have not been implemented > > (yet?). And it enables testing xip on other platforms. The patch is on > > my must-read list. > > query: which feature is currently s390 only? (Execute In Place?) I think so. The filemap_xip.c functionality doesn't work for Flash memory yet. Flash memory doesn't have struct pages to back it up with which this stuff depends on. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/