Re: [Invitation] Linux MM Alignment Session on kmemdump on Wednesday

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 11:49:35AM +0300, Eugen Hristev wrote:
> On 9/15/25 21:53, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 08:58:35AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> >> This week's topic will be kmemdump led by Eugen Hristev.  See the latest
> >> proposal at https://lwn.net/Articles/1031319/.
> > 
> > I don't understand what this has to do with mm, to be honest.
> > It looks like a debugging aid.
> 
> It was suggested to move it to mm/ :
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/0fa9e4e7-1247-4c82-8c0b-fa65b7fbb56d@infradead.org/

I feel like you should be able to explain this rather better than
"somebody else told me to move it".  As of this moment, I still don't
know what kmemdump even is.

> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250422113156.575971-2-eugen.hristev@linaro.org/
> > 
> > is a great example of how to write a lot of documentation that doesn't
> > actually tell the reader what anything is.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Here is a link to the v3 where I changed it a little bit :
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250912150855.2901211-1-eugen.hristev@linaro.org/
> 
> I am eager to improve the documentation to make more sense out of it, I
> am happy with suggestions.

Start by telling me what it is.