linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

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Message-Id: <200808221232.42115.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:32:41 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	"Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@...il.com>
Cc:	carsteno@...ibm.com, Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Jörn Engel" <joern@...fs.org>,
	tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] AXFS: Advanced XIP filesystem

On Friday 22 August 2008 00:13, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > Agreed. I haven't had a good look through it yet, but at a glance it
> > looks pretty neat. The VM side of things looks pretty reasonable
> > (I fear XIP faulting might have another race or two, but that's a
> > core mm issue rather than filesystem specific).
>
> How might I design a test to flush those bugs out?  We haven't seen any.

Not quite sure yet. I just fixed a couple of easy ones, but there
could be some more lurking. Don't be too worried about it yet, I
was just musing to myself there really :)
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