Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/16] Page Alloc Hogger

[Juan Yescas]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Juan,
>
> While I think there's possibly value in people not re-implemented their own
> allocation injector, I don't think there's value in having this be part of
> core-mm.
>

Thanks Lorenzo for your comments. Apologies for the delay.

> I really don't want this to form part of any contract or to be blessed in
> any way by core mm as it exposes internal implementation details and I
> really want to avoid adding extra maintainer workload here.
>

I understand and completely respect your concern regarding maintainer
overhead and internal boundaries.

Do you see a way to provide similar functionality without exposing the
internal implementation?


> I'd suggest keeping it as an out-of-tree module as David proposed
> previously ([0]).
>
> Alternatively, keeping it as part of tooling (e.g. in tools/testing) could
> also work.

That would also work.

> (This is no comment on how useful it might be for debugging or testing
> scenarios :)
>

Thanks again for your feedback
Juan

> --
> Cheers, Lorenzo
>
> [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/97605949-82c5-49e0-84b6-b42e8078b55d@xxxxxxxxxx/