Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753346AbbGWAFZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:05:25 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f51.google.com ([209.85.220.51]:33160 "EHLO mail-pa0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269AbbGWAFW (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:05:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:20 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com 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 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> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1481 Lines: 35 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/