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Execute-in-place

Posted May 12, 2005 10:33 UTC (Thu) by cotte (subscriber, #7812)
Parent article: Execute-in-place

>So far, the XIP patches enable fast, memory-to-memory device access,
>but they do not yet implement true execute-in-place operation.
That is not true. In fact the filemap_xip_nopage function for xip in mm/filemap.c directly maps on-disk content into userspace - that's exactly what execute in place is.

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Execute-in-place

Posted May 12, 2005 11:06 UTC (Thu) by cotte (subscriber, #7812) [Link]

...maybe I should read the article to the end before complaining ;)

Execute-in-place

Posted Apr 26, 2006 11:13 UTC (Wed) by tohoyn (guest, #37363) [Link]

Where is this filemap_xip_nopage? I can't find it in the patch.

Execute-in-place

Posted Apr 26, 2006 11:40 UTC (Wed) by tohoyn (guest, #37363) [Link]

I found all the patches with "Search".