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 2/3] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:09:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902-fix_split-v4-2-85f03905f7b1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902-fix_split-v4-0-85f03905f7b1@arm.com>
Since glibc commit 321e1fc73f (“malloc: Enable 2MB THP by default on AArch64”),
glibc may call madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) for sufficiently large allocations
made by memalign().
The underlying VMA may start at a different address from the aligned
address returned by memalign(). Furthermore, a subsequent
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call does not split the VMA because the flag is
already set.
This causes split_huge_page_test to fail because the check_huge_xxx()
helpers incorrectly require the address returned by memalign() to
match the VMA start address reported in /proc/self/smaps.
Instead of relying on /proc/self/smaps, use /proc/self/pagemap and
/proc/kpageflags to detect huge-page mappings and large folios:
1. If hpage_size == pmd_pagesize, check PAGE_IS_HUGE instead of
using check_large_folios(), since only the mapping type matters.
This identifies PMD-mapped huge pages.
2. Otherwise, use check_large_folios() to detect large folios. This
covers mTHP cases.
3. Check the folio flags according to the type of huge page.
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 4821a3563036..dc62ce84e143 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -351,31 +351,13 @@ char *__get_smap_entry(void *addr, const char *pattern, char *buf, size_t len)
return entry;
}
-static bool __check_pmd_huge(void *addr, char *pattern, int nr_hpages,
- uint64_t hpage_size)
-{
- char buffer[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];
- uint64_t thp = -1;
- char *entry;
-
- entry = __get_smap_entry(addr, pattern, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
- if (!entry)
- goto err_out;
-
- if (sscanf(entry, "%9" SCNu64 " kB", &thp) != 1)
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("Reading smap error\n");
-
-err_out:
- return thp == (nr_hpages * (hpage_size >> 10));
-}
-
-static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
- uint64_t hpage_size)
+static bool check_large_folios(int pagemap_fd, int kpageflags_fd,
+ void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
+ uint64_t hpage_size)
{
int order = 0, pagesize = getpagesize();
unsigned int nr_pages = hpage_size / pagesize;
int orders[MAX_NR_ORDERS], status;
- int pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd;
bool ret = false;
if (!nr_pages)
@@ -386,15 +368,6 @@ static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
ksft_exit_fail_msg("invalid order\n");
memset(orders, 0, sizeof(int) * MAX_NR_ORDERS);
- pagemap_fd = open(PAGEMAP_PATH, O_RDONLY);
- if (pagemap_fd == -1)
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("read pagemap fail\n");
-
- kpageflags_fd = open(KPAGEFLAGS_PATH, O_RDONLY);
- if (kpageflags_fd == -1) {
- close(pagemap_fd);
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("read kpageflags fail\n");
- }
status = gather_folio_orders(addr, len, pagemap_fd,
kpageflags_fd, orders, MAX_NR_ORDERS);
@@ -405,48 +378,112 @@ static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
ret = true;
out:
- close(pagemap_fd);
- close(kpageflags_fd);
return ret;
}
-bool check_huge_anon(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
-{
- uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
-
- if (!pmd_pagesize)
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
+enum check_huge_type {
+ CHECK_HUGE_ANON,
+ CHECK_HUGE_FILE,
+ CHECK_HUGE_SHMEM,
+};
- if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
- return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "AnonHugePages: ", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+static bool check_huge_type(uint64_t categories, uint64_t kpageflags,
+ enum check_huge_type type)
+{
+ const bool file = categories & PAGE_IS_FILE;
+ const bool swapbacked = kpageflags & KPF_SWAPBACKED;
+
+ switch (type) {
+ case CHECK_HUGE_ANON:
+ return !file;
+ case CHECK_HUGE_FILE:
+ return file && !swapbacked;
+ case CHECK_HUGE_SHMEM:
+ return file & swapbacked;
+ }
- return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+ return false;
}
-bool check_huge_file(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+static bool __check_huge(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
+ uint64_t hpage_size, enum check_huge_type type)
{
- uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
+ bool ret = false;
+ int pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd;
+ int nr_pmd_mappings = 0;
+ uint64_t pmd_pagesize, scan_mapping_size;
+ uint64_t categories, kpf;
+ unsigned long pfn;
+ bool check_pmd_mapping, allow_nonpresent;
+ char *start = addr;
+ char *end = start + len;
+ pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
if (!pmd_pagesize)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
- if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
- return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "FilePmdMapped:", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+ check_pmd_mapping = (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize);
+ scan_mapping_size = (nr_hpages > 0) ? hpage_size : psize();
+ /* Some mTHP tests check a partially populated PMD-sized range. */
+ allow_nonpresent = (uint64_t)nr_hpages * hpage_size < len;
- return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+ pagemap_fd = open(PAGEMAP_PATH, O_RDONLY);
+ if (pagemap_fd < 0)
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("open pagemap fail\n");
+
+ kpageflags_fd = open(KPAGEFLAGS_PATH, O_RDONLY);
+ if (kpageflags_fd < 0) {
+ close(pagemap_fd);
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("open kpageflags fail\n");
+ }
+
+ if (!check_pmd_mapping &&
+ !check_large_folios(pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd,
+ addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size))
+ goto out;
+
+ for (; start < end; start += scan_mapping_size) {
+ categories = pagemap_scan_get_categories(pagemap_fd, start);
+ pfn = pagemap_get_pfn(pagemap_fd, start);
+ if (pfn == -1UL) {
+ if (!allow_nonpresent)
+ goto out;
+ else
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (pageflags_get(pfn, kpageflags_fd, &kpf))
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("read kpageflags: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ if (check_pmd_mapping && (categories & PAGE_IS_HUGE))
+ nr_pmd_mappings++;
+ if (kpf & KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL)
+ continue;
+ if (!check_huge_type(categories, kpf, type))
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (check_pmd_mapping && (nr_pmd_mappings != nr_hpages))
+ goto out;
+ ret = true;
+
+out:
+ close(pagemap_fd);
+ close(kpageflags_fd);
+ return ret;
}
-bool check_huge_shmem(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+bool check_huge_anon(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
{
- uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
-
- if (!pmd_pagesize)
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
+ return __check_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_ANON);
+}
- if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
- return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "ShmemPmdMapped:", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+bool check_huge_file(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+{
+ return __check_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_FILE);
+}
- return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+bool check_huge_shmem(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+{
+ return __check_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_SHMEM);
}
int64_t allocate_transhuge(void *ptr, int pagemap_fd)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 9a49af88702e..f19bd17817e5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#define PM_SWAP BIT_ULL(62)
#define PM_PRESENT BIT_ULL(63)
+#define KPF_SWAPBACKED BIT_ULL(14)
#define KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD BIT_ULL(15)
#define KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL BIT_ULL(16)
#define KPF_HWPOISON BIT_ULL(19)
--
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 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 14:16 ` 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 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-09-02 12:09 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] kselftest: mm: introduce alloc_isolated_mem() Yeoreum Yun
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