+ selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes.patch added to mm-new branch

+ selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: race the collapse of windows with holes
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: selftests/mm: race the collapse of windows with holes
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 13:51:03 +0100

The harness pins max_ptes_none to 0, so khugepaged only collapses a window
once every PTE in it is present.  A window with holes takes a different
route, and never gets raced.  A hole is zero-filled in the new folio
rather than copied.  Which slots count as holes keeps moving under the
racing MADV_DONTNEED, right up to the moment the PMD is detached.

Run both ends of the occupancy scale for every driver mode, one after the
other.  mTHP collapse supports only those two, 0 and HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1, and
coerces anything between them to 0.  Each result says which end it ran:

  ok 1 stepped/strict: 5s, 231 steps, no corruption
  ok 2 stepped/holes: 5s, 194 steps, no corruption

Assisted-by: LLM
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908125105.1510704-18-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged_race.c |   32 ++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged_race.c~selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged_race.c
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	const int nr_threads = ARRAY_SIZE(thread_names);
 	pthread_t threads[ARRAY_SIZE(thread_names)];
 	static const char * const all_modes[] = { "stepped", "free", "madvise" };
+	static const bool occupancies[] = { false, true };	/* strict, holes */
+	const int nr_occupancies = ARRAY_SIZE(occupancies);
 	const char *one_mode[1];
 	const char * const *modes = all_modes;
 	int nr_modes = ARRAY_SIZE(all_modes);
@@ -298,7 +300,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		 -1, 0) != (void *)mremap_scratch)
 		ksft_exit_fail_perror("mmap() mremap scratch");
 
-	ksft_set_plan(nr_modes);
+	ksft_set_plan(nr_modes * nr_occupancies);
 
 	thp_save_settings();
 	thp_read_settings(&settings);
@@ -306,8 +308,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* Base of the settings stack; the bottom entry is never popped */
 	thp_push_settings(&settings);
 
-	for (int m = 0; m < nr_modes; m++) {
-		const char *mode = modes[m];
+	for (int run = 0; run < nr_modes * nr_occupancies; run++) {
+		const char *mode = modes[run / nr_occupancies];
+		bool holes = occupancies[run % nr_occupancies];
 
 		thp_read_settings(&settings);
 		settings.thp_enabled = THP_MADVISE;
@@ -317,12 +320,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		settings.khugepaged.scan_sleep_millisecs =
 			strcmp(mode, "free") ? 1000 : 0;
 		settings.khugepaged.alloc_sleep_millisecs = 10;
+
 		/*
-		 * mTHP collapse honours only 0 or HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1 here, and 0
-		 * keeps a step from being spent on PMD allocations that racing
-		 * MADV_DONTNEED will not let succeed.
+		 * mTHP collapse honours only 0 or HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1 here.  The two
+		 * ends race different paths: a strict window has every PTE
+		 * present, a hole-heavy one is mostly zero-filled.
 		 */
-		settings.khugepaged.max_ptes_none = 0;
+		settings.khugepaged.max_ptes_none = holes ?
+			(hpage_pmd_size / page_size) - 1 : 0;
 		/* One wake, one pass: the playground plus the forked children's copies */
 		settings.khugepaged.pages_to_scan =
 			nr_areas * (hpage_pmd_size / page_size) * 8;
@@ -388,8 +393,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			check_page(i);
 
 		ksft_test_result(!corrupted,
-				 "%s: %ds, %d steps, no corruption\n",
-				 mode, duration_s, steps);
+				 "%s/%s: %ds, %d steps, no corruption\n",
+				 mode, holes ? "holes" : "strict",
+				 duration_s, steps);
 
 		/* The next mode maps the same fixed address with its own settings */
 		munmap(region, nr_areas * hpage_pmd_size);
@@ -399,9 +405,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 		if (corrupted) {
 			/* Memory is suspect; the rest would prove nothing */
-			while (++m < nr_modes)
-				ksft_test_result_skip("%s: skipped after corruption\n",
-						      modes[m]);
+			while (++run < nr_modes * nr_occupancies)
+				ksft_test_result_skip("%s/%s: skipped after corruption\n",
+						      modes[run / nr_occupancies],
+						      occupancies[run % nr_occupancies] ?
+						      "holes" : "strict");
 			break;
 		}
 	}
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from kas@kernel.org are

mm-huge_memory-do-not-touch-frozen-folios-in-deferred_split_isolate.patch
mm-huge_memory-dequeue-the-deferred-split-after-the-split-freeze.patch
selftests-mm-raise-the-khugepaged-test-case-cap.patch
selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-where-the-pmd-is-too-large.patch
selftests-mm-scale-khugepageds-collapse-wait-with-the-pmd-size.patch
selftests-mm-skip-khugepaged-page-cache-cases-without-a-pmd-folio.patch
selftests-mm-make-the-swap-cases-swapout-reliable.patch
selftests-mm-stop-khugepaged-during-the-madv_collapse-cases.patch
selftests-mm-move-is_backed_by_folio-into-vm_util.patch
selftests-mm-add-folio-order-check-for-address-ranges.patch
selftests-mm-add-folio-order-detection-self-check.patch
selftests-mm-add-khugepaged-completion-barrier-helper.patch
selftests-mm-add-order-parameterized-khugepaged-collapse-cases.patch
selftests-mm-parameterize-the-mixed-source-collapse-case-by-source-order.patch
selftests-mm-cover-a-shared-source-collapse-write-race.patch
selftests-mm-run-every-supported-collapse-order-by-default.patch
selftests-mm-check-that-one-khugepaged-pass-collapses-one-window.patch
selftests-mm-add-khugepaged-race-harness.patch
selftests-mm-race-the-collapse-of-windows-with-holes.patch
selftests-mm-add-memory-pressure-threads-to-the-khugepaged-race-harness.patch
selftests-mm-zap-whole-pte-tables-in-the-khugepaged-race-harness.patch