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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt | 15 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt index 0466ee569278..b77472949ede 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt @@ -28,12 +28,15 @@ Implementation Execute-in-place is implemented in three steps: block device operation, address space operation, and file operations. -A block device operation named direct_access is used to retrieve a -reference (pointer) to a block on-disk. The reference is supposed to be -cpu-addressable, physical address and remain valid until the release operation -is performed. A struct block_device reference is used to address the device, -and a sector_t argument is used to identify the individual block. As an -alternative, memory technology devices can be used for this. +A block device operation named direct_access is used to translate the +block device sector number to a page frame number (pfn) that identifies +the physical page for the memory. It also returns a kernel virtual +address that can be used to access the memory. + +The direct_access method takes a 'size' parameter that indicates the +number of bytes being requested. The function should return the number +of bytes that can be contiguously accessed at that offset. It may also +return a negative errno if an error occurs. The block device operation is optional, these block devices support it as of today: |