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

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

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.

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.

-- 
Cheers,

David