From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1507221701580.14953@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437609241.3298.19.camel@stgolabs.net>
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> fwiw, I've been trying to push people towards this for a while. Ie:
>
> commit 15610c86fa83ff778eb80d3cfaa71d6acceb628a
> Author: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
> Date: Wed Sep 11 14:21:48 2013 -0700
>
> hugepage: mention libhugetlbfs in doc
>
> Explicitly mention/recommend using the libhugetlbfs test cases when
> changing related kernel code. Developers that are unaware of the project
> can easily miss this and introduce potential regressions that may or may
> not be caught by community review.
>
> Also do some cleanups that make the document visually easier to view at a
> first glance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>
> But generally speaking, I doubt this doc is read much.
>
The mmap(2) man page cites it specifically as the source of information on
MAP_HUGETLB and it, in turn, directs people to
tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c. It also mentions libhugetlbfs
as a result of your patch, so perhaps change the man page to point people
directly there?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-23 0:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-21 18:09 Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] mm/hugetlb: add cache of descriptors to resv_map for region_add Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] mm/hugetlb: add region_del() to delete a specific range of entries Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] mm/hugetlb: expose hugetlb fault mutex for use by fallocate Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] hugetlbfs: hugetlb_vmtruncate_list() needs to take a range to delete Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] hugetlbfs: truncate_hugepages() takes a range of pages Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] mm/hugetlb: vma_has_reserves() needs to handle fallocate hole punch Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] mm/hugetlb: alloc_huge_page handle areas hole punched by fallocate Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] hugetlbfs: New huge_add_to_page_cache helper routine Mike Kravetz
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] hugetlbfs: add hugetlbfs_fallocate() Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:23 ` Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-21 18:09 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] mm: madvise allow remove operation for hugetlbfs Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 22:03 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:06 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:19 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:34 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2015-07-22 22:50 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 22:54 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-22 23:18 ` Mike Kravetz
2015-07-22 23:54 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-23 0:05 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2015-07-23 15:17 ` Eric B Munson
2015-07-23 17:05 ` Mike Kravetz
2015-07-23 17:17 ` Eric B Munson
2015-07-23 17:29 ` Mike Kravetz
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