Commit 946280cd authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/vm: hugetlbpage: move section about kernel development to hugetlbfs_reserv

The hugetlbpage describes hugetlbfs from the user perspective and newer
hugetlbfs_reserv document targets kernel developers. Hence the section
about hugetlbfs kernel development naturally belongs there.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent fde7917f
...@@ -583,5 +583,13 @@ of cpusets or memory policy there is no guarantee that huge pages will be ...@@ -583,5 +583,13 @@ of cpusets or memory policy there is no guarantee that huge pages will be
available on the required nodes. This is true even if there are a sufficient available on the required nodes. This is true even if there are a sufficient
number of global reservations. number of global reservations.
Hugetlbfs regression testing
============================
The most complete set of hugetlb tests are in the libhugetlbfs repository.
If you modify any hugetlb related code, use the libhugetlbfs test suite
to check for regressions. In addition, if you add any new hugetlb
functionality, please add appropriate tests to libhugetlbfs.
--
Mike Kravetz, 7 April 2017 Mike Kravetz, 7 April 2017
...@@ -379,11 +379,3 @@ The `libhugetlbfs`_ library provides a wide range of userspace tools ...@@ -379,11 +379,3 @@ The `libhugetlbfs`_ library provides a wide range of userspace tools
to help with huge page usability, environment setup, and control. to help with huge page usability, environment setup, and control.
.. _libhugetlbfs: https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs .. _libhugetlbfs: https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs
Kernel development regression testing
=====================================
The most complete set of hugetlb tests are in the libhugetlbfs repository.
If you modify any hugetlb related code, use the libhugetlbfs test suite
to check for regressions. In addition, if you add any new hugetlb
functionality, please add appropriate tests to libhugetlbfs.
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