From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:09:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902-fix_split-v4-1-85f03905f7b1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902-fix_split-v4-0-85f03905f7b1@arm.com>
There're some random failure for split_huge_page_test when khugepaged
collapses pages into pmd again which had split by the test.
Prevent the khugepaged's collapses for split page by setting the
mapped pmd-huge-page with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE before split.
Suggested-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 86a603692826..4bbad892bc57 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -168,6 +168,14 @@ static char *allocate_zero_filled_hugepage(size_t len)
return result;
}
+static void madv_nohuge(void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+ if (!madvise(addr, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE))
+ return;
+
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("MADV_NOHUGEPAGE failed, err=%d\n", errno);
+}
+
static void verify_rss_anon_split_huge_page_all_zeroes(char *one_page, int nr_hpages, size_t len)
{
unsigned long rss_anon_before, rss_anon_after;
@@ -180,6 +188,9 @@ static void verify_rss_anon_split_huge_page_all_zeroes(char *one_page, int nr_hp
if (!rss_anon_before)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("No RssAnon is allocated before split\n");
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madv_nohuge(one_page, len);
+
/* split all THPs */
write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
(uint64_t)one_page + len, 0);
@@ -227,6 +238,9 @@ static void split_pmd_thp_to_order(int order)
if (!check_huge_anon(one_page, 4 * pmd_pagesize, 4, pmd_pagesize))
ksft_exit_fail_msg("No THP is allocated\n");
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madv_nohuge(one_page, len);
+
/* split all THPs */
write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
(uint64_t)one_page + len, order);
@@ -275,6 +289,9 @@ static void split_pte_mapped_thp(void)
goto out;
}
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madv_nohuge(thp_area, thp_area_size);
+
/*
* To challenge spitting code, we will mremap a single page of each
* THP (page[i] of thp[i]) in the thp_area into page_area. This will
@@ -542,6 +559,8 @@ static int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const char *testfile, size_t fd_size,
ksft_test_result_skip("Pagecache folio split skipped\n");
return -2;
}
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madv_nohuge(*addr, fd_size);
return 0;
err_out_close:
close(*fd);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 12:09 [PATCH v4 0/3] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-09-02 14:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Zi Yan
2026-09-02 15:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 15:16 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 15:33 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] kselftest: mm: introduce alloc_isolated_mem() Yeoreum Yun
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