Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759805AbYHUOmu (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:42:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757119AbYHUOml (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:42:41 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:63163 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754883AbYHUOmk (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:42:40 -0400 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=It5Q+G6/R3OFclWJPguloZQBHH4bBySXegJ7Elx0DvzuGe3cZy85978//7gU+1+0Wv BY5X5TJ9V26v9gyQ5jNUONIFlqC9vWgifJd+uRiSW8DxIvjNeJ2SUYGfPZHdBoHC6zmI /nYRhq3+fjXDb8jaRJdEQc/TTQyyT4S3KbAYg= Message-ID: <6934efce0808210742v14a093e8vde31f9eea0555f99@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:42:39 -0700 From: "Jared Hulbert" To: "Leon Woestenberg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd , "=?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rn_Engel?=" , tim.bird@am.sony.com, cotte@de.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48AD00C4.6060302@gmail.com> <20080821083916.GF5706@disturbed> <6934efce0808210719s6458dc77w2c0755a4bf90bf8a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 18 > What if the use-case did not cover all cases of XIP use? > > If a compressed page is attempted to be executed, will the filesystem > fall back to decompression to RAM and execution from RAM, or will this > result in a faulty system? No this will not result in a faulty system. It is perfectly acceptable to have all pages in a file XIP, no pages in a fill XIP, and anywhere in between. > The design choices look real good. Congrats on the achievement. thanks! -- 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/