[PATCH] [RESEND] documentation: xip documentation update

From: Marco Stornelli
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 11:03:25 EST


From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>

xip documentation updated
Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
---

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt.orig 2008-08-20 20:11:37.000000000 +0200
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt 2008-11-06 12:47:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ The block device operation is optional,
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 reference
+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 3rd 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.


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