[LTP] [PATCH 00/29] Hugetlb: Migrating libhugetlbfs tests

[Tarun Sahu]

Hi Richard, 

Understood, I will repost the patch, with first 2/3 in the series.

Thanks,

On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 14:51 +0100, Richard Palethorpe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Tarun Sahu <tsahu@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Libhugetlbfs is not being maintained actively, and some distro is
> > dropping
> > support for it. There are some tests that are good for testing
> > hugetlb
> > functionality in kernel.
> > 
> > As per previous dicussion in RFC[1], Here, this patch series
> > consists
> > of hugetlb tests taken from libhugetlbfs modified to work in ltp
> > environment. This series do not include all the tests, I
> > will post another series for the remaining tests soon.
> 
> Perhaps Cyril already said this, but I suggest just getting one or
> two
> of the tests merged first then working through the rest.
> 
> This reduces the iteration time and batch size.
> 
> At least in terms of what you submit to the mailing list. Perhaps if
> it
> gets to the point where most tests pass review first time, you can
> submit everything remaining.
> 
> Also note that submitting this many new tests, once they are merged
> we
> will probably get failure reports (including compilation failures).
> It
> will make life easier to stagger that.
> 
> I'm going to mark this patch-set as changes requested in patchwork.
>