From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: david@redhat.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, shuah@kernel.org,
ioworker0@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:41:58 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5df18d21-a451-4261-8606-8faa41149028@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250917153046.b781f65ea9a54875f4ddd02e@linux-foundation.org>
On 2025/9/18 06:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:31:37 +0800 Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> wrote:
>
>> The madv_populate and soft-dirty kselftests currently fail on systems where
>> CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled.
>>
>> Introduce a new helper softdirty_supported() into vm_util.c/h to ensure
>> tests are properly skipped when the feature is not enabled.
>
> It's pretty sad for us to ship kernels which have known selftest flaws
> like this.
>
> would
>
> Fixes: 9f3265db6ae8 ("selftests: vm: add test for Soft-Dirty PTE bit")
>
> be appropriate?
Yes. Thanks for providing the Fixes: tag!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-18 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-17 13:31 [PATCH v3 1/1] selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled Lance Yang
2025-09-17 22:30 ` Andrew Morton
2025-09-18 1:41 ` Lance Yang [this message]
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