* [to-be-updated] kselftest-mm-return-fail-when-child-test-result-is-fail-in-khugepaged.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-09-29 20:28 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-09-29 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, ziy, vbabka, usama.arif, surenb, shuah, ryan.roberts,
rppt, nico.pache, mhocko, ljs, liam, lance.yang, kas, gourry,
dev.jain, david, baolin.wang, baohua, yeoreum.yun, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: kselftest: mm: return fail when child test result is fail in khugepaged
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kselftest-mm-return-fail-when-child-test-result-is-fail-in-khugepaged.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
------------------------------------------------------
From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: kselftest: mm: return fail when child test result is fail in khugepaged
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:29:51 +0100
Patch series "kselftest: mm: fix intermittent failure khugepaged test", v3.
There are intermittent failures in collapse_max_ptes_swap() and
collapse_max_ptes_shared() when using the khugepaged_context:
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_swap (khugepaged:anon)
# Swapout 257 of 2048 pages... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_swap exceeded.... OK
# Swapout 256 of 2048 pages... OK
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 17)
# Totals: pass:17 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
This happens because khugepaged may collapse the pages before
wait_for_scan() is called, causing a sanity check that expects uncollapsed
pages to fail.
For example, in collapse_max_ptes_swap(), after faulting the pages back in
and paging out up to max_ptes_swap pages, khugepaged may collapse them
again before c->collapse() is called.
To prevent this, mark the VMA with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE after it has been
collapsed by wait_for_scan() for anon. This prevents khugepaged from
collapsing it again before c->collapse() is called.
Also, fix false-positive results when a child process fails in tests such
as collapse_fork*() or collapse_max_ptes_shared():
# -------------------------
# running ./khugepaged -s 2
# -------------------------
#
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 // child failed.
# Check if parent still has huge page... OK // parent hpage success
ok 24 collapse_max_ptes_shared // considered as success
...
# Totals: pass:26 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
This failure was observed on NVIDIA Spark with 16KB page.
This patch (of 2):
Although the child process in collapse_fork*() or
collapse_max_ptes_shared() reports `KSFT_FAIL`, the result is ignored
because the test only checks whether the parent's page was collapsed into
a huge page.
As a result, the test is considered successful whenever the parent's page
is a huge page, even if the child test fails, as shown below:
#
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 // child failed.
# Check if parent still has huge page... OK // parent hpage success
ok 24 collapse_max_ptes_shared // considered as success
...
# Totals: pass:26 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
To address this, propagate the child's failure and skip the subsequent
check in the parent.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260923-fix_khugepagd_fail-v3-0-b387e92fe1a9@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260923-fix_khugepagd_fail-v3-1-b387e92fe1a9@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c~kselftest-mm-return-fail-when-child-test-result-is-fail-in-khugepaged
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,8 @@ static void collapse_fork(struct collaps
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has small page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 0, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1060,6 +1062,7 @@ static void collapse_fork(struct collaps
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, page_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
@@ -1100,6 +1103,8 @@ static void collapse_fork_compound(struc
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has huge page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 1, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1107,6 +1112,7 @@ static void collapse_fork_compound(struc
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
@@ -1158,6 +1164,8 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(str
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has huge page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 1, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1165,6 +1173,7 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(str
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yeoreum.yun@arm.com are
kselftest-mm-fix-potential-failure-for-merged-vma-in-guard-regions.patch
kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch
kselftest-mm-fix-intermittent-failure-khugepaged-test.patch
kselftest-mm-prevent-random-failure-of-huge-page-split-for-khugepaged.patch
kselftest-mm-replace-usage-of-proc-self-smaps-for-__check_pmd_huge.patch
kselftest-mm-integrate-huge-page-checks.patch
kselftest-mm-remove-check_huge_shmem.patch
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@ 2026-09-23 18:44 Andrew Morton
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-09-23 18:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, yeoreum.yun, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: kselftest: mm: return fail when child test result is fail in khugepaged
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kselftest-mm-return-fail-when-child-test-result-is-fail-in-khugepaged.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
------------------------------------------------------
From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: kselftest: mm: return fail when child test result is fail in khugepaged
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:35:01 +0100
Patch series "kselftest: mm: fix intermittent failure khugepaged test", v2.
There are intermittent failures in collapse_max_ptes_swap() and
collapse_max_ptes_shared() when using the khugepaged_context:
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_swap (khugepaged:anon)
# Swapout 257 of 2048 pages... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_swap exceeded.... OK
# Swapout 256 of 2048 pages... OK
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 17)
# Totals: pass:17 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
This happens because khugepaged may collapse the pages before
wait_for_scan() is called, causing a sanity check that expects uncollapsed
pages to fail.
For example, in collapse_max_ptes_swap(), after faulting the pages back in
and paging out up to max_ptes_swap pages, khugepaged may collapse them
again before c->collapse() is called.
To prevent this, mark the VMA with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE after it has been
collapsed by wait_for_scan() for anon. This prevents khugepaged from
collapsing it again before c->collapse() is called.
Also, fix false-positive results when a child process fails in tests such
as collapse_fork*() or collapse_max_ptes_shared():
# -------------------------
# running ./khugepaged -s 2
# -------------------------
#
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 // child failed.
# Check if parent still has huge page... OK // parent hpage success
ok 24 collapse_max_ptes_shared // considered as success
...
# Totals: pass:26 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
This failure was observed on NVIDIA Spark with 16KB page.
This patch (of 2):
Although the child process in collapse_fork*() or
collapse_max_ptes_shared() reports `KSFT_FAIL`, the result is ignored
because the test only checks whether the parent's page was collapsed into
a huge page.
As a result, the test is considered successful whenever the parent's page
is a huge page, even if the child test fails, as shown below:
#
# Run test: collapse_max_ptes_shared (khugepaged:anon)
# Allocate huge page... OK
# Share huge page over fork()... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1023 of 2048... OK
# Maybe collapse with max_ptes_shared exceeded.... OK
# Trigger CoW on page 1024 of 2048... Fail
Bail out! Unexpected huge page
# Planned tests != run tests (26 != 23)
# Totals: pass:23 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 // child failed.
# Check if parent still has huge page... OK // parent hpage success
ok 24 collapse_max_ptes_shared // considered as success
...
# Totals: pass:26 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
To address this, propagate the child's failure and skip the subsequent
check in the parent.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-fix_khugepagd_fail-v2-0-3c2877beef61@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-fix_khugepagd_fail-v2-1-3c2877beef61@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (ARM) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c~kselftest-mm-return-fail-when-child-test-result-is-fail-in-khugepaged
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1053,6 +1053,8 @@ static void collapse_fork(struct collaps
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has small page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 0, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1060,6 +1062,7 @@ static void collapse_fork(struct collaps
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, page_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
@@ -1100,6 +1103,8 @@ static void collapse_fork_compound(struc
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has huge page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 1, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1107,6 +1112,7 @@ static void collapse_fork_compound(struc
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
@@ -1158,6 +1164,8 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(str
wait(&wstatus);
exit_status = WEXITSTATUS(wstatus);
+ if (exit_status == KSFT_FAIL)
+ goto out;
ksft_print_msg("Check if parent still has huge page...");
if (ops->check_huge(p, hpage_pmd_size, 1, hpage_pmd_size))
@@ -1165,6 +1173,7 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(str
else
fail("Fail");
validate_memory(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
+out:
ops->cleanup_area(p, hpage_pmd_size);
ksft_test_result_report(exit_status, "%s\n", __func__);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yeoreum.yun@arm.com are
kselftest-mm-fix-potential-failure-for-merged-vma-in-guard-regions.patch
kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch
kselftest-mm-fix-intermittent-failure-khugepaged-test.patch
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