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author | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2008-11-19 09:48:07 -0500 |
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committer | David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> | 2008-11-19 09:48:07 -0500 |
commit | dba0a918722ee0f0ba3442575e4448c3ab622be4 (patch) | |
tree | fdb466cf09e7916135098d651b18924b2fe9ba5f /Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt | |
parent | 0996e6382482ce9014787693d3884e9468153a5c (diff) | |
parent | 7f0f598a0069d1ab072375965a4b69137233169c (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-upstream
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt index 3cc4010521a0..0466ee569278 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt | |||
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional, these block devices support it as of | |||
39 | today: | 39 | today: |
40 | - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver | 40 | - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver |
41 | 41 | ||
42 | An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference | 42 | An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve references |
43 | to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space, | 43 | to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference |
44 | and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the | 44 | to an address_space is provided. This function assigns values to the kmem and |
45 | function should allocate blocks if needed. | 45 | pfn parameters. The third argument indicates whether the function should allocate |
46 | blocks if needed. | ||
46 | 47 | ||
47 | This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that | 48 | This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that |
48 | do page cache read/write operations. | 49 | do page cache read/write operations. |