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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:34:34 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support

On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> selftests is a pretty scrappy place.  It's partly a dumping ground for
> things so useful test code doesn't just get lost and bitrotted.  Partly
> a framework so people who add features can easily test them. Partly to
> provide tools to architecture maintainers when they wire up new
> syscalls and the like.

Yeah, ipc, for instance, also sucks _badly_ in selftests.

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