Re: [PATCH 3/5] tools/vm: rename tools/vm to tools/mm

From: Dan Carpenter

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 08:36:45 EST


On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:07:52PM +0000, SeongJae Park wrote:
> Rename tools/vm to tools/mm for being more consistent with the code and
> documentation directories, and won't be confused with virtual machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 4 ++--
> Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/mm/slub.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/page_owner.rst | 2 +-
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> mm/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
> tools/{vm => mm}/.gitignore | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/Makefile | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/page-types.c | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/page_owner_sort.c | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh | 0
> tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo.c | 0
> 14 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/.gitignore (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/Makefile (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/page-types.c (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/page_owner_sort.c (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo-gnuplot.sh (100%)
> rename tools/{vm => mm}/slabinfo.c (100%)

Is there a reason we left the tools/vm directory even though
it's empy? Is it for backwards compatability or something?

regards,
dan carpenter