From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com (mail-pa0-f54.google.com [209.85.220.54]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BB56B0255 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:05:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by padck2 with SMTP id ck2so145988509pad.0 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pa0-x234.google.com (mail-pa0-x234.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c03::234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rm13si7257263pab.133.2015.07.22.17.05.22 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pachj5 with SMTP id hj5so146489283pac.3 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] hugetlbfs: add fallocate support In-Reply-To: <1437609241.3298.19.camel@stgolabs.net> Message-ID: References: <1437502184-14269-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com> <20150722150647.2597c7e5be9ee1eecc438b6f@linux-foundation.org> <1437603594.3298.5.camel@stgolabs.net> <20150722153023.e8f15eb4e490f79cc029c8cd@linux-foundation.org> <55B024C6.8010504@oracle.com> <1437609241.3298.19.camel@stgolabs.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Mike Kravetz , Andrew Morton , Eric B Munson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen , Naoya Horiguchi , Hugh Dickins , Aneesh Kumar , Hillf Danton , Christoph Hellwig , Michal Hocko 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 > 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 > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > 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? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org