From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:56:28 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202115628.46150903.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABqxG0fyH89YP+jpZ5nJoVfzOQ++J4EfGP42FtjxAv7OY9o+5w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:13:43 +0800
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:34:20 +0800
> > Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 6:34 [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/ Dave Young
2012-02-01 6:45 ` Cong Wang
2012-02-01 7:39 ` Dave Young
2012-02-01 7:32 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-01 7:41 ` Dave Young
2012-02-01 8:30 ` Wu Fengguang
2012-02-01 8:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-01 9:53 ` Dave Young
2012-02-01 9:53 ` Dave Young
2012-02-01 14:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-01 21:17 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-02 2:13 ` Dave Young
2012-02-02 7:32 ` Cong Wang
2012-02-02 19:58 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-02 19:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-02-03 1:31 ` Dave Young
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