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SubjectRe: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/
On 02/02/2012 10:13 AM, Dave Young 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? I think slabinfo
> and page-types should stay in tools/vm/. Can you explain a bit?
>

Hey,

Check the comments in these files:

/*
* hugepage-mmap:
*
* Example of using huge page memory in a user application using the mmap
* system call.


/*
* hugepage-shm:
*
* Example of using huge page memory in a user application using Sys V
shared
* memory system calls. In this example the app is requesting 256MB of
* memory that is backed by huge pages. The application uses the flag
* SHM_HUGETLB in the shmget system call to inform the kernel that it is
* requesting huge pages.


/*
* Example of using hugepage memory in a user application using the mmap
* system call with MAP_HUGETLB flag.

All of them are examples, not tests, not tools, thus Documentation/ is
the best place for them.


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