Re: [PATCH] move vm tools from Documentation/vm/ to tools/

From: Dave Young
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 02:36:43 EST


On 02/01/2012 02:45 PM, Cong Wang wrote:

> On 02/01/2012 02:34 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>> tools/ is the better place for vm tools which are used by many people.
>> Moving them to tools also make them open to more users instead of hide in
>> Documentation folder.
>
> Well, hugepage-mmap, hugepage-shm, and map_hugetlb are examples, not
> really tools. So, only page-types is probably a tool, but I leave this
> to Fengguang to decide.


looks reasonable

>
>>
>> Also fixed several coding style problem.
>
> Make it another patch for people to review. :)


Will do

>
> [...]
>> diff --git a/tools/vm/Makefile b/tools/vm/Makefile
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..b4f9fdd
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/vm/Makefile
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +# Makefile for vm tools
>> +
>> +CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
>> +CFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra
>> +
>> +all: page-types hugepage-mmap hugepage-shm map_hugetlb
>> +%: %.c
>> + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
>> +
>> +clean:
>> + $(RM) page-types hugepage-mmap hugepage-shm map_hugetlb
>
> Is $(RM) defined?


It's a predefined variables of GNU makefile, It Imply rule of 'rm -f'

--
Thanks
Dave
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