selftests/mm: introduce helper to read every page

FORCE_READ(*addr) ensures that the compiler will emit a load from addr. 
Several tests need to trigger such a load for a range of pages, ensuring
that every page is faulted in, if it wasn't already.

Introduce a new helper force_read_pages() that does exactly that and
replace existing loops with a call to it.

The step size (regular/huge page size) is preserved for all loops, except
in split_huge_page_test.  Reading every byte is unnecessary; we now read
every huge page, matching the following call to check_huge_file().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122170224.4056513-7-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Cc: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 6ad32b1830f1..522f7f9050f5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ static inline unsigned int pshift(void)
 	return __page_shift;
 }
 
+static inline void force_read_pages(char *addr, unsigned int nr_pages,
+				    size_t pagesize)
+{
+	for (unsigned int i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+		FORCE_READ(addr[i * pagesize]);
+}
+
 bool detect_huge_zeropage(void);
 
 /*