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Subject[PATCH v5 5/5] cramfs: rehabilitate it
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Update documentation, pointer to latest tools, appoint myself as
maintainer. Given it's been unloved for so long, I don't expect anyone
will protest.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Chris Brandt <chris.brandt@renesas.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
fs/cramfs/Kconfig | 9 +++++---
3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
index 4006298f67..8875d306bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,48 @@ you can just change the #define in mkcramfs.c, so long as you don't
mind the filesystem becoming unreadable to future kernels.


+Memory Mapped cramfs image
+--------------------------
+
+The CRAMFS_PHYSMEM Kconfig option adds support for loading data directly
+from a physical linear memory range (usually non volatile memory like Flash)
+to cramfs instead of going through the block device layer. This saves some
+memory since no intermediate buffering is necessary to hold the data before
+decompressing.
+
+And when data blocks are kept uncompressed and properly aligned, they will
+automatically be mapped directly into user space whenever possible providing
+eXecute-In-Place (XIP) from ROM of read-only segments. Data segments mapped
+read-write (hence they have to be copied to RAM) may still be compressed in
+the cramfs image in the same file along with non compressed read-only
+segments. Both MMU and no-MMU systems are supported. This is particularly
+handy for tiny embedded systems with very tight memory constraints.
+
+The filesystem type for this feature is "cramfs_physmem" to distinguish it
+from the block device (or MTD) based access. The location of the cramfs
+image in memory is system dependent. You must know the proper physical
+address where the cramfs image is located and specify it using the
+physaddr=0x******** mount option (for example, if the physical address
+of the cramfs image is 0x80100000, the following command would mount it
+on /mnt:
+
+$ mount -t cramfs_physmem -o physaddr=0x80100000 none /mnt
+
+To boot such an image as the root filesystem, the following kernel
+commandline parameters must be provided:
+
+ "rootfstype=cramfs_physmem rootflags=physaddr=0x80100000"
+
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+A version of mkcramfs that can take advantage of the latest capabilities
+described above can be found here:
+
+https://github.com/npitre/cramfs-tools
+
+
For /usr/share/magic
--------------------

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 1c3feffb1c..f00aec6a66 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -3612,8 +3612,8 @@ F: drivers/cpuidle/*
F: include/linux/cpuidle.h

CRAMFS FILESYSTEM
-W: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/
-S: Orphan / Obsolete
+M: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
+S: Maintained
F: Documentation/filesystems/cramfs.txt
F: fs/cramfs/

diff --git a/fs/cramfs/Kconfig b/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
index 5b4e0b7e13..ae1fe6c795 100644
--- a/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/cramfs/Kconfig
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
config CRAMFS
- tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs) (OBSOLETE)"
+ tristate "Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)"
select ZLIB_INFLATE
help
Saying Y here includes support for CramFs (Compressed ROM File
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@ config CRAMFS
cramfs. Note that the root file system (the one containing the
directory /) cannot be compiled as a module.

- This filesystem is obsoleted by SquashFS, which is much better
- in terms of performance and features.
+ This filesystem is limited in capabilities and performance on
+ purpose to remain small and low on RAM usage. It is most suitable
+ for small embedded systems. For a more capable compressed filesystem
+ you should look at SquashFS which is much better in terms of
+ performance and features.

If unsure, say N.

--
2.9.5
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