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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/6] Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors (V2)
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:24:23PM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler
> abstraction. This adds helpers to allow the decompressors
> to access and process the output buffers in an implementation
> independant manner.
>
> This allows different types of output buffer to be passed
> to the decompressors, with the implementation specific
> aspects handled at decompression time, but without the
> knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code.
>
> This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs
> cache buffers, and page cache pages.
>
> This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for
> the caches.
>
> V2: also update the code in decompressor_multi*.c

Thanks!

>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim


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