On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:26:20AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:21:00 +0100 Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > + *
> > + * Cannot support XIP and highmem, because our ->direct_access
> > + * routine for XIP must return memory that is always addressable.
> > + * If XIP was reworked to use pfns and kmap throughout, this
> > + * restriction might be able to be lifted.
> > */
> > + gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO;
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XIP
> > + gfp_flags |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
> > +#endif
>
> A dubious tradeoff?
On big highmem machines certainly. It may be somewhat useful on small
memory systems... but having the config option there is nice for a VM
developer without an s390 easily available ;)
But don't apply these XIP patches yet -- after a bit more testing I'm
seeing some data corruption, so I'll have to work out what's going
wrong with that first.
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