From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755346Ab0KFKjn (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2010 06:39:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:64099 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754118Ab0KFKjm (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2010 06:39:42 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 10:39:35 +0000 From: James Hogan To: Marco Stornelli Cc: Linux Kernel , Linux Embedded , Linux FS Devel , Tim Bird , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16 v2] pramfs: documentation Message-ID: <20101106103935.GA13172@gandalf.local> References: <4CD51832.7070309@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CD51832.7070309@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:56:18AM +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote: > From: Marco Stornelli > +PRAMFS is write protected. The page table entries that map the backing-store > +RAM are normally marked read-only. Write operations into the filesystem > +temporarily mark the affected pages as writeable, the write operation is > +carried out with locks held, and then the page table entries is +marked read-only again. > +This feature provides protection against filesystem corruption caused by errant Looks like an accidental lost newline in the patch here, should that be "are marked" or is there some text missing? Cheers James