Jared Hulbert wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
> The question is, why is that not enough (I haven't looked at these
> patches enough to work out if there is anything more they provide).
I think, it just takes trying things out. From reading the code, I
think this should work well for the filemap_xip code with no struct page.
Also, we need eliminate nopage() to get rid of the struct page.
Unfortunately I don't find time to try this out for now, and on 390 we
can live with struct page for the time being. In contrast to the
embedded platforms, the mem_mep array gets swapped out to disk by our
hypervisor.
Can you help me understand the comment about nopage()? Do you mean
set xip_file_vm_ops.nopage to NULL?
Yes, but not without replacement. Today, the page table entry for xip
mappings is created like this:
__handle_mm_fault calls handle_pte_fault, which calls do_no_page [all
in mm/memory.c]. do_no_page does call the ->nopage operation, and
creates a page table entry. The ->nopage operation is set to
xip_file_nopage() [mm/filemap_xip.c], which calls the get_xip_page
address space operation. For ext2, this is implemented in
ext2_get_xip_page (fs/ext2/xip.c).
In this process, the struct page entry in mem_map is looked up in
ext2_get_xip_page(), returned to xip_file_nopage, then returned to
do_no_page.
An alternative approach, which does not need to have struct page at
hand, would be to use the nopfn vm operations struct. That one would
have to rely on get_xip_pfn. The current path would then be
deprecated. If you're interrested in using the later for xip without
struct page, I would volounteer to go ahead and implement this?
so long,
Carsten
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