From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Davidlohr Bueso Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:34:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1437604474.3298.7.camel@stgolabs.net> References: <1437502184-14269-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <20150722150647.2597c7e5be9ee1eecc438b6f@linux-foundation.org> <1437603594.3298.5.camel@stgolabs.net> <20150722153023.e8f15eb4e490f79cc029c8cd@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150722153023.e8f15eb4e490f79cc029c8cd-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mike Kravetz , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Dave Hansen , Naoya Horiguchi , David Rientjes , Hugh Dickins , Aneesh Kumar , Hillf Danton , Christoph Hellwig , Michal Hocko List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org 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.