Add support for caching, to reduce FLASH wear when writing using small
blocksizes. As we also don't care anymore about heads and tails in case of
partial writes, this greatly simplifies the code for handling writes.
Note: We don't bother caching reads smaller than the FLASH chunk size
(256 KiB).
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently the FLASH database is updated by the kernel using file operations,
meant for userspace only. While this works for us because copy_{from,to}_user()
on powerpc can handle kernel pointers, this is unportable and a bad example.
Replace the file operations by callbacks, registered by the ps3flash driver.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
