From: Marco Stornelli Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:26:56 +0000 (-0800) Subject: DOC: update xip method info X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc5~43 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=084c304980f05833bc8a91b856af7dc7a7bb7d60;p=karo-tx-linux.git DOC: update xip method info xip documentation updated: - change "get_xip_page" to "get_xip_mem"; - explain changed function parameters Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Carsten Otte Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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 today: - dcssblk: s390 dcss block device driver -An address space operation named get_xip_page is used to retrieve reference -to a struct page. To address the target page, a reference to an address_space, -and a sector number is provided. A 3rd argument indicates whether the -function should allocate blocks if needed. +An address space operation named get_xip_mem is used to retrieve references +to a page frame number and a kernel address. To obtain these values a reference +to an address_space is provided. This function assigns values to the kmem and +pfn parameters. The third argument indicates whether the function should allocate +blocks if needed. This address space operation is mutually exclusive with readpage&writepage that do page cache read/write operations.