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authorSayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>2026-07-08 12:29:05 +0530
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-07-30 19:48:31 -0700
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parent9ff59baf75ec5dc2b0ba6dff67abc34e06d1d883 (diff)
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selftests/mm: handle EINVAL when configuring gigantic hugepages
Patch series "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests", v3. This series fixes issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not satisfied. Patch 1 updates the hugetlb selftest helpers to handle -EINVAL when attempting to configure gigantic HugeTLB pages via nr_hugepages. PowerPC hash MMU pSeries systems expose gigantic hugepage sizes but do not allow runtime allocation of such pages, causing the sysfs write to fail. Handle this case gracefully and continue running the test instead of aborting. Patch 2 fixes the KSM NUMA merge test on systems with memoryless NUMA nodes. The test currently relies on the number of configured NUMA nodes and may attempt allocations on nodes that have no memory, resulting in spurious failures. Use the existing helpers to identify NUMA nodes that contain memory and skip the test when fewer than two such nodes are available. Patch 3 fixes a pre-existing operator precedence issue in ksm_tests, where a ternary expression combined with logical OR operators could be evaluated differently than intended. Added parentheses to ensure the correct evaluation order. These changes improve handling of unsupported test configurations and unmet test prerequisites, avoiding spurious failures. This patch (of 3): Some MM selftests attempt to configure the amount of HugeTLB pages of different sizes by writing to nr_hugepages. PowerPC hash MMU pSeries systems advertise gigantic hugepage sizes but do not support runtime allocation of such pages, writes to the corresponding nr_hugepages file fail with -EINVAL. This causes the test to bail out even though the failure is due to a platform limitation rather than the functionality being tested. Ignore -EINVAL when configuring nr_hugepages so that tests continue to run on systems where gigantic hugepage allocation is unsupported. Before patch: ------------------------- running ./hugetlb-madvise ------------------------- TAP version 13 1..1 [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 Bail out! /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB/nr_hugepages write(0) failed: Invalid argument Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 [FAIL] After patch: ------------------------- running ./hugetlb-madvise ------------------------- TAP version 13 1..1 [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 [PASS] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1783446924.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2e3b585cbb30b2fc495dcd49d75de6f6da61861c.1783446924.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com Fixes: 27477b28b74f ("selftests/mm: hugepage_settings: add APIs to get and set nr_hugepages") Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c26
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h1
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
index 2eab2110ac6a..d7917dce3aba 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ void hugetlb_set_nr_pages(unsigned long size, unsigned long nr)
hugetlb_sysfs_path(path, sizeof(path), size, "nr_hugepages");
- write_num(path, nr);
+ write_num_ignore_einval(path, nr);
}
unsigned long hugetlb_free_pages(unsigned long size)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 311fc5b4513e..ef1ea11981a7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ int read_file(const char *path, char *buf, size_t buflen)
return (unsigned int) numread;
}
-void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
+static void __write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen, bool ignore_einval)
{
int fd, saved_errno;
ssize_t numwritten;
@@ -735,14 +735,22 @@ void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
saved_errno = errno;
close(fd);
errno = saved_errno;
- if (numwritten < 0)
+ if (numwritten < 0) {
+ if (ignore_einval && errno == EINVAL)
+ return;
ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%.*s) failed: %s\n", path, (int)(buflen - 1),
buf, strerror(errno));
+ }
if (numwritten != buflen - 1)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%.*s) is truncated, expected %zu bytes, got %zd bytes\n",
path, (int)(buflen - 1), buf, buflen - 1, numwritten);
}
+void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
+{
+ __write_file(path, buf, buflen, /* ignore_einval = */ false);
+}
+
unsigned long read_num(const char *path)
{
char buf[21];
@@ -753,12 +761,22 @@ unsigned long read_num(const char *path)
return strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
}
-void write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num)
+static void __write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num, bool ignore_einval)
{
char buf[21];
sprintf(buf, "%lu", num);
- write_file(path, buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
+ __write_file(path, buf, strlen(buf) + 1, ignore_einval);
+}
+
+void write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num)
+{
+ return __write_num(path, num, /* ignore_einval = */ false);
+}
+
+void write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num)
+{
+ return __write_num(path, num, /* ignore_einval = */ true);
}
static unsigned long shmall, shmmax;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index ea8fc8fdf0eb..7799154b67ee 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen);
int read_file(const char *path, char *buf, size_t buflen);
unsigned long read_num(const char *path);
void write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num);
+void write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num);
void shm_limits_prepare(unsigned long length);
void __shm_limits_restore(void);