From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757727Ab2BCB3L (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:29:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20748 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754408Ab2BCB3J (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2012 20:29:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4F2B38FD.50902@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:31:41 +0800 From: Dave Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Dave Young , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/ References: <20120201063420.GA10204@darkstar.nay.redhat.com> <20120201131746.07e2219e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120202115628.46150903.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120202115628.46150903.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/03/2012 03:56 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:13:43 +0800 > Dave Young wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:34:20 +0800 >>> Dave Young 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 -- Thanks Dave