write suspend and/or erase suspend

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 1 19:31:00 EDT 2002


Joakim.Tjernlund at lumentis.se said:
> When a erase or write is suspened to allow some other part of the FS
> to read, is that read garanted to read from another sector than the
> one that has been suspended?

> I am asking since I think it's not allowed to access the sector that
> has a  suspended operation. I am using Intel Strata Flash. 

Correct. Currently we don't suspend writes, but when we do we need to make 
sure we get that right. Reading from a block on which an erase is in 
progress is a silly idea anyway, so I don't care that we don't check for 
that and make the reader wait.

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dwmw2






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