linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/

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Message-ID: <4F28DF9B.40702@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:47 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/

On 02/01/2012 02:34 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> tools/ is the better place for vm tools which are used by many people.
> Moving them to tools also make them open to more users instead of hide in
> Documentation folder.

Well, hugepage-mmap, hugepage-shm, and map_hugetlb are examples, not 
really tools. So, only page-types is probably a tool, but I leave this 
to Fengguang to decide.

>
> Also fixed several coding style problem.

Make it another patch for people to review. :)

[...]
> diff --git a/tools/vm/Makefile b/tools/vm/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b4f9fdd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/vm/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +# Makefile for vm tools
> +
> +CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
> +CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra
> +
> +all: page-types hugepage-mmap hugepage-shm map_hugetlb
> +%: %.c
> +	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
> +
> +clean:
> +	$(RM) page-types hugepage-mmap hugepage-shm map_hugetlb

Is $(RM) defined?
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