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

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Message-ID: <4F2B38FD.50902@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:31:41 +0800
From:	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/

On 02/03/2012 03:56 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:13:43 +0800
> Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:34:20 +0800
>>> Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice to covert these into simple pass/fail tests and
>>> promote them to tools/testing/selftests/.
>>
>> Andrew, I'm not clear about this, do you means to selftest
>> hugepage-mmap.c,  hugepage-shm.c  and map_hugetlb.c?
> 
> Those ones can go into selftests.
> 
>> I think slabinfo and page-types should stay in tools/vm/.
> 
> Yes, those are tools, not selftests.


Great, thanks for explain, will do

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Thanks
Dave
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