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If they should all >>>> be moved under tools/ somewhere, perhaps we handle that in a separate >>>> series? >>> >>> Yes. lib/ is just absolutely the wrong place for that. >>> >>> Maybe lib/tests/mm >>> >>> But then, I wonder if they could just be somewhere in tests/ directly ... >>> >>> Anyhow, it was also raised whether some of these could be written as kunit >>> tests. It's been a long time since I worked on these, so just mentioning it. >> >> I also think it would be best to try to add them as kunit. I'm not exactly sure if >> kunit would accept such benchmark kind of code. Some research is required there. >> > > Sounds good, I'll transition these to kunit tests, move to mm/tests/ > alongside the other MM kunit test, and send a v3 for just the vmstat test > as a separate thread. If all looks good, I can do this for slab and > pgalloc as well as a follow-up step. Yeah, sounds like a plan. Thank you for working on these. These would help everyone. -- Thanks, Usama