From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
davem@davemloft.net, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@meta.com>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: drv-net: devmem: Skip when hugetlbfs isn't supported
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:55:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atjSKD3o3_dQm7tc@devvm16445.scu0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261021090852.996899-1-maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
On 10/21, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> The devmem selftest requires accessing /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages,
> which is only available when hugetlbfs is supported. This isn't the
> case on all CPU architectures, for example it isn't supported on ARM
> 32-bits on cores that don't support LPAE.
>
> On these devices, the devmem kselftest doesn't skip gracefully, it hits
> an exception while trying to open the nr_hugepages file :
>
> # Exception| _reserve_hugepages()
> # Exception| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
> # Exception| File "/usr/lib/kselftests/drivers/net/hw/devmem_lib.py", line 36, in _reserve_hugepages
> # Exception| with open(NR_HUGEPAGES_FILE, 'r+', encoding='utf-8') as f:
> # Exception| ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> # Exception| FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages'
>
> Let's check if the file exists before trying to open it, and return
> immediately if we can't.
>
> The _reserve_hugepages() runs as part of the "require_devmem()", that
> skips if devmem itself isn't supported. Before the blamed commit, this
> check was done prior to accessing nr_hugepages, so the problem wasn't
> showing.
>
> This has been found by trying to run the selftest on stmmac, on an
> Altera CycloneV SoC (Cortex A9, doesn't support hugepages).
>
> Fixes: 8ac4255c1e0c ("selftests/net: devmem.py: add check_rx_large_niov")
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-21 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 9:08 [PATCH net] selftests: drv-net: devmem: Skip when hugetlbfs isn't supported Maxime Chevallier
2026-10-21 9:47 ` Björn Töpel
2026-10-21 14:55 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2026-10-23 17:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-26 9:38 ` Maxime Chevallier
2026-10-27 21:15 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-10-28 7:17 ` Maxime Chevallier
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