Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:13:43 +0800
Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:34:20 +0800
> > Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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