XIP aware file system

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Feb 15 12:36:29 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:38 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Please study carefully xip_udelay() and try to understand _when_ it is 
> OK to call other functions and when it is not.  This function is really 
> where all the magic is happening.

Out of interest, how do we guarantee that there won't be speculative
prefetching of icache? If you're relying on hardware-specific knowledge
that it doesn't happen, please document that so that it doesn't bite
people implementing the XIP primitives on other platforms.

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dwmw2





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