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

[Juan Yescas]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2026 at 4:17 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/6/26 11:48, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) 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.
> >
> > 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'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.
> Yes, I would prefer if all MM-related testing modules actually go somewhere in
> tools/testing.
>

Thanks David, apologies for the delay.

>
> I commented on that recently when finding some of them in lib (and we also have
> another GUP one at least in mm). Stuff that doesn't ultimately need to be there
> should just be somewhere else.
>

I think that works too, if this module is useful for kernel
developers, we could place it
in tools/testing.

Thanks
Juan

> --
> Cheers,
>
> David