>> A recent enhancement for xip: support non-struct page backed memory, in
>> 2.6.26 has been added. Could you tell us the ways you test the XIP file
>> system in general, and, the improve features in particular. Do you have
>> functional/regression test suite(s) with you specifically for testing
>> XIP ? In that case, would you be able to share them with LTP under
>> GPLv2 ?
>
> In fact we do have some testcases for xip, but apparently Nick keeps finding
> Bugs that pass our tests ;-). These testcases don't fit into LTP as is, but
> I think they can be useful to look at when creating LTP testcases for it.
> I'll see what I can do to get them out under GPL. The regular LTP file
> system testcases are also being used on ext2 -o xip during our test cycle,
> and I we've found some bugs with those in the past. Therefore, I would like
> to second Nicks recommendation to use those against ext2 -o xip on a
> ramdisk.

Another option when AXFS gets merged is to use UML's iomem as follows.

First start a UML kernel with these options:

./linux iomem=axfs.image,iomem_region_name

once that starts up you can mount an AXFS volume to that iomem
"device" like this.

mount -t axfs -o iomem=iomem_region_name none /mnt/axfs

But I'm not sure that testcases fits so neatly into a LTP case.

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