[OE-core] Recipe for Linux page-types tool

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Martin Vuille <jpmv27 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 03/15/18 06:49, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
>>
>> On 03/15/2018 12:20 AM, Martin Vuille wrote:
>>>
>>> page-types is a simple Linux kernel debugging tool to list information
>>> about
>>> the state of virtual memory (VM) pages.
>>>
>>> The source is distributed as part of the kernel tree:
>>> tools/vm/page-types.c
>>>
>>> MV
>>>
>>> On 03/14/18 11:22, Martin Vuille wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a recipe for building the page-types Linux kernel VM tool.
>>>> Is there any interest in this?
>>>> If so, to what project/layer should I send it?
>>
>>
>>
>> This questions is probably better asked on the linux-yocto mailing list
>> then?
>>
>> Alex
>
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm offering a bitbake recipe. linux-yocto
> doesn't seem to contain any layers or recipes.

But it is where we tend to discuss a lot of kernel things, i.e. perf,
kernel builds, etc.

In this case, if the tool comes from the kernel source tree, it would
be build not unlike
perf or the other userspace utilities that are part of the kernel
tree. Which means that
the patching of it is different than other userspace applications
(since you can't
dictate the version, etc). If the tool isn't build directly from the
kernel source, then we
have to deal with something that needs to be manually sync'd to the
kernel tree to
be kept up to date.

Cheers,

Bruce



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