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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry@kernel.org>, "Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
	"Anshuman Khandual" <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, " Michal Koutný " <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: skip test_no_kmem_bypass if debugfs is unavailable
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:06:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811190611.c72f19ada3912791a81a7a90@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811051434.3805648-1-wfelipe@google.com>

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:14:11 +0000 Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com> wrote:

> test_no_kmem_bypass() needs to read
> /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/stored_pages via get_zswap_stored_pages() to
> verify that compressed pages are charged to the memcg.
> 
> When running in an environment where debugfs is not mounted or
> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled, get_zswap_stored_pages() fails, causing the
> loop to terminate early and report a false negative (KSFT_FAIL).
> 
> Selftests should not fail if debugfs is unavailable, and it should print
> a message when it is skipped.
> 
> While I'm here, also add a warning message if the test is being skipped
> due to totalram size and make the check for totalram more readable.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h
>
> ...
>
> @@ -570,8 +571,16 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const char *root)
>  	/* Read sys info and compute test values accordingly */
>  	if (sysinfo(&sys_info) != 0)
>  		return KSFT_FAIL;
> -	if (sys_info.totalram > 5000000000)
> +	if (sys_info.totalram > GB(4)) {
> +		ksft_print_msg(
> +			"requires less than 4GB total ram, sys_info.totalram: %.1fGB\n",
> +			(double)sys_info.totalram / GB(1));
>  		return KSFT_SKIP;
> +	}
> +	if (access(PATH_ZSWAP_STORED_PAGES, R_OK)) {
> +		ksft_print_msg("mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug\n");

Super nittynit: "mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug" sounds like a
progress message.  "I just mounted debugfs at ...".  I think the below is
more clear?

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c~selftests-cgroup-test_zswap-skip-test_no_kmem_bypass-if-debugfs-is-unavailable-fix
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const cha
 		return KSFT_SKIP;
 	}
 	if (access(PATH_ZSWAP_STORED_PAGES, R_OK)) {
-		ksft_print_msg("mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug\n");
+		ksft_print_msg("debugfs not mounted at /sys/kernel/debug\n");
 		return KSFT_SKIP;
 	}
 	values = mmap(0, sizeof(struct no_kmem_bypass_child_args), PROT_READ |
_


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-12  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11  5:14 [PATCH v2] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: skip test_no_kmem_bypass if debugfs is unavailable Wilson Felipe Pereira
2026-08-11 16:41 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-08-11 19:20 ` Nhat Pham
2026-08-12  2:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2026-08-12  2:33   ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-08-12  2:45   ` SJ Park

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