+ selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-where-the-pmd-is-too-large.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: skip collapse_compound_extreme() where the PMD is too large
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-where-the-pmd-is-too-large.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-where-the-pmd-is-too-large.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    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: skip collapse_compound_extreme() where the PMD is too large
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:24:32 +0100

collapse_compound_extreme() builds a PTE table full of distinct PTE-mapped
compound pages by cycling hpage_pmd_nr fault-time THPs through mremap.  It
therefore needs hpage_pmd_nr PMD-order allocations in a row.  That is fine
at a 2M PMD (4K base pages) or a 32M one (16K).  A 512M PMD -- arm64 with
64K base pages -- makes each of those an order-13 allocation, which the
allocator cannot reliably hand out even once, let alone 8192 times.

The failure is not a quiet one: the case calls ksft_exit_fail_msg(), so
the whole binary stops and every case after it is lost.

Skip the case where the PMD is larger than 32M.  The MADV_COLLAPSE cases
still cover PMD-order collapse on those configurations, and 4K and 16K
PMDs are unaffected.

Assisted-by: LLM
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260919002451.496763-3-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand (arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c~selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-where-the-pmd-is-too-large
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -940,6 +940,16 @@ static void collapse_compound_extreme(st
 	void *p;
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * This needs hpage_pmd_nr PMD-order allocations in a row, which the
+	 * allocator will not supply if the PMD is very large.
+	 */
+	if (hpage_pmd_size > (32UL << 20)) {
+		ksft_test_result_skip("%s: PMD too large for fault-time THP construction\n",
+				      __func__);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	p = ops->setup_area(1);
 	ksft_print_msg("Construct PTE page table full of different PTE-mapped compound pages\n");
 	for (i = 0; i < hpage_pmd_nr; i++) {
_

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
mm-huge_memory-add-folio_reset_partially_mapped.patch
mm-khugepaged-drop-redundant-mm_struct-pin-in-madvise_collapse.patch
mm-khugepaged-count-collapses-where-khugepaged-makes-them.patch
mm-khugepaged-rename-mthp_present_ptes-bitmap-to-eligible_ptes.patch
mm-collapse-add-collapseh-for-the-collapse-interface.patch
mm-collapse-state-what-a-collapse-may-do-in-the-policy.patch
mm-collapse-drop-the-collapse_possible-wrapper.patch
mm-collapse-name-the-per-table-scan-reset-for-what-it-resets.patch
mm-collapse-separate-scanning-a-pte-table-from-collapsing-it.patch
mm-collapse-open-code-collapse_single_pmd-in-its-two-callers.patch
mm-collapse-work-out-the-orders-a-vma-allows-once-per-vma.patch
mm-collapse-declare-the-collapse-interface-in-collapseh.patch
mm-collapse-implement-madv_collapse-in-madvisec.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