From: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Execute in place
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:38:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503113822.GA27404@gateway.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705021502450.16517@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:04:44PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > I seem to remember seeing some patches go by at some point that allowed one of
> > the rom type embeded system filesystems to directly execute binaries out of
> > the original rom memory rather than copying them to ram first, then executing
> > from there. I was wondering if rootfs or tmpfs support such execute in place
> > today, or if binaries executed from there have their code segments duplicated
> > in ram?
>
> Only ext2 supports it today: see Documentation/filesystems/xip.txt
IIRC JFFS2 also supports XIP.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 21:55 Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 14:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 14:38 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-05-02 15:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-02 19:30 ` Phillip Susi
2007-05-02 20:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-03 11:38 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2007-05-03 15:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-05-03 12:12 ` Robin Getz
2007-05-02 23:11 Al Boldi
2007-05-03 7:31 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-03 11:33 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-03 17:38 ` Dmitry Krivoschekov
2007-05-07 16:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-07 19:37 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-07 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-07 20:56 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 11:36 ` Al Boldi
2007-05-08 11:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 12:02 ` Al Boldi
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