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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave-h16yJtLeMjHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz
	<mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi
	<n-horiguchi-PaJj6Psr51x8UrSeD/g0lQ@public.gmane.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Aneesh Kumar
	<aneesh.kumar-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
	Hillf Danton <hillf.zj-gPhfCIXyaqCqndwCJWfcng@public.gmane.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:19:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437603594.3298.5.camel@stgolabs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150722150647.2597c7e5be9ee1eecc438b6f-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:09:34 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > As suggested during the RFC process, tests have been proposed to
> > libhugetlbfs as described at:
> > http://librelist.com/browser//libhugetlbfs/2015/6/25/patch-tests-add-tests-for-fallocate-system-call/

Great!

> 
> I didn't know that libhugetlbfs has tests.  I wonder if that makes
> tools/testing/selftests/vm's hugetlbfstest harmful?

Why harmful? Redundant, maybe(?). Does anyone even use selftests for
hugetlbfs regression testing? Lets see, we also have these:

- hugepage-{mmap,shm}.c
- map_hugetlb.c

There's probably a lot of room for improvement here.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21 18:09 [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] mm/hugetlb: add cache of descriptors to resv_map for region_add Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03   ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] mm/hugetlb: expose hugetlb fault mutex for use by fallocate Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03   ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] hugetlbfs: hugetlb_vmtruncate_list() needs to take a range to delete Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] hugetlbfs: truncate_hugepages() takes a range of pages Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] mm/hugetlb: vma_has_reserves() needs to handle fallocate hole punch Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] mm/hugetlb: alloc_huge_page handle areas hole punched by fallocate Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] hugetlbfs: New huge_add_to_page_cache helper routine Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] hugetlbfs: add hugetlbfs_fallocate() Mike Kravetz
     [not found]   ` <1437502184-14269-10-git-send-email-mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:03     ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:23       ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]         ` <55B017EE.5020203-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:30           ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Andrew Morton
     [not found] ` <1437502184-14269-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:06   ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]     ` <20150722150647.2597c7e5be9ee1eecc438b6f-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:19       ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
     [not found]         ` <1437603594.3298.5.camel-h16yJtLeMjHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:30           ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]             ` <20150722153023.e8f15eb4e490f79cc029c8cd-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:34               ` Davidlohr Bueso
     [not found]                 ` <1437604474.3298.7.camel-h16yJtLeMjHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-22 22:37                   ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:50                     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 22:54                       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 23:18             ` Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 23:54               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-23  0:05                 ` David Rientjes
2015-07-23 15:17               ` Eric B Munson
2015-07-23 17:05                 ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]                   ` <55B11EEF.1070605-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-23 17:17                     ` Eric B Munson
2015-07-23 17:29                       ` Mike Kravetz

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