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From: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 1/6] selftests/mm: make file helpers return errors
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:50:56 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831042101.18085-2-sarthak.sharma@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831042101.18085-1-sarthak.sharma@arm.com>

Change read_file(), write_file(), read_num(), write_num() and
write_num_ignore_einval() in vm_util.c to report failures to callers
instead of exiting from the helper.

Make read_file() return a negative errno on failure and 0 on success, so
callers can distinguish a successful read from an I/O error. Also make
read_num() reject negative and malformed values.

Keep write_num_ignore_einval() silent for -EINVAL while returning other
errors to its caller.

Update callers to print diagnostics and fail wherever required. Also add
a helper print_file_access_error() in hugepage_settings.c to print
TAP-compatible errors without a kselftest dependency. This prepares the
helpers to be moved to tools/lib/mm without a kselftest dependency.

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
---
 .../testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c  |  98 +++++++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c       |  14 +-
 .../selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c       |   5 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c          | 122 ++++++++++++------
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h          |   8 +-
 5 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
index d7917dce3aba..5bcda01ac4f6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 #include "vm_util.h"
 #include "hugepage_settings.h"
@@ -48,6 +49,11 @@ static const char * const shmem_enabled_strings[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 
+static void print_file_access_error(const char *path, int ret)
+{
+	printf("# %s: %s (%d)\n", path, strerror(-ret), -ret);
+}
+
 int thp_read_string(const char *name, const char * const strings[])
 {
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
@@ -61,8 +67,9 @@ int thp_read_string(const char *name, const char * const strings[])
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
-	if (!read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf))) {
-		perror(path);
+	ret = read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf));
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
@@ -103,12 +110,17 @@ void thp_write_string(const char *name, const char *val)
 		printf("%s: Pathname is too long\n", __func__);
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
-	write_file(path, val, strlen(val) + 1);
+	ret = write_file(path, val, strlen(val) + 1);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
 }
 
 unsigned long thp_read_num(const char *name)
 {
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	unsigned long num;
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, THP_SYSFS "%s", name);
@@ -116,7 +128,13 @@ unsigned long thp_read_num(const char *name)
 		printf("%s: Pathname is too long\n", __func__);
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
-	return read_num(path);
+	ret = read_num(path, &num);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	return num;
 }
 
 void thp_write_num(const char *name, unsigned long num)
@@ -129,7 +147,11 @@ void thp_write_num(const char *name, unsigned long num)
 		printf("%s: Pathname is too long\n", __func__);
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
-	write_num(path, num);
+	ret = write_num(path, num);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
 }
 
 void thp_read_settings(struct thp_settings *settings)
@@ -157,8 +179,15 @@ void thp_read_settings(struct thp_settings *settings)
 		.max_ptes_shared = thp_read_num("khugepaged/max_ptes_shared"),
 		.pages_to_scan = thp_read_num("khugepaged/pages_to_scan"),
 	};
-	if (dev_queue_read_ahead_path[0])
-		settings->read_ahead_kb = read_num(dev_queue_read_ahead_path);
+	if (dev_queue_read_ahead_path[0]) {
+		int ret = read_num(dev_queue_read_ahead_path,
+				   &settings->read_ahead_kb);
+
+		if (ret) {
+			print_file_access_error(dev_queue_read_ahead_path, ret);
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		}
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_ORDERS; i++) {
 		if (!((1 << i) & orders)) {
@@ -208,8 +237,15 @@ void thp_write_settings(struct thp_settings *settings)
 	thp_write_num("khugepaged/max_ptes_shared", khugepaged->max_ptes_shared);
 	thp_write_num("khugepaged/pages_to_scan", khugepaged->pages_to_scan);
 
-	if (dev_queue_read_ahead_path[0])
-		write_num(dev_queue_read_ahead_path, settings->read_ahead_kb);
+	if (dev_queue_read_ahead_path[0]) {
+		int ret = write_num(dev_queue_read_ahead_path,
+				    settings->read_ahead_kb);
+
+		if (ret) {
+			print_file_access_error(dev_queue_read_ahead_path, ret);
+			exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+		}
+	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_ORDERS; i++) {
 		if (!((1 << i) & orders))
@@ -307,8 +343,15 @@ static unsigned long __thp_supported_orders(bool is_shmem)
 		}
 
 		ret = read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf));
-		if (ret)
-			orders |= 1UL << i;
+		if (ret) {
+			if (ret != -ENOENT) {
+				print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+				exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+			}
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		orders |= 1UL << i;
 	}
 
 	return orders;
@@ -382,8 +425,7 @@ int detect_hugetlb_page_sizes(unsigned long sizes[], int max)
 		if (sscanf(entry->d_name, "hugepages-%zukB", &kb) != 1)
 			continue;
 		sizes[count++] = kb * 1024;
-		ksft_print_msg("[INFO] detected hugetlb page size: %zu KiB\n",
-			       kb);
+		printf("# [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: %zu KiB\n", kb);
 	}
 	closedir(dir);
 	return count;
@@ -425,28 +467,49 @@ static void hugetlb_sysfs_path(char *buf, size_t buflen,
 unsigned long hugetlb_nr_pages(unsigned long size)
 {
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	unsigned long nr;
+	int ret;
 
 	hugetlb_sysfs_path(path, sizeof(path), size, "nr_hugepages");
 
-	return read_num(path);
+	ret = read_num(path, &nr);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	return nr;
 }
 
 void hugetlb_set_nr_pages(unsigned long size, unsigned long nr)
 {
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	int ret;
 
 	hugetlb_sysfs_path(path, sizeof(path), size, "nr_hugepages");
 
-	write_num_ignore_einval(path, nr);
+	ret = write_num_ignore_einval(path, nr);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
 }
 
 unsigned long hugetlb_free_pages(unsigned long size)
 {
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	unsigned long nr;
+	int ret;
 
 	hugetlb_sysfs_path(path, sizeof(path), size, "free_hugepages");
 
-	return read_num(path);
+	ret = read_num(path, &nr);
+	if (ret) {
+		print_file_access_error(path, ret);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	return nr;
 }
 
 static bool __hugetlb_setup(unsigned long size, unsigned long nr)
@@ -502,7 +565,8 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_setup(unsigned long nr, unsigned long sizes[],
 		return 0;
 
 	if (nr_enabled > max) {
-		ksft_print_msg("detected %d huge page sizes, will only test %d\n", nr_enabled, max);
+		printf("# detected %d huge page sizes, will only test %d\n",
+		       nr_enabled, max);
 		nr_enabled = max;
 	}
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 1d2d6bd72fd2..4ba5692ec4be 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static void get_finfo(const char *dir)
 	char buf[1 << 10];
 	char path[PATH_MAX];
 	char *str, *end;
+	int ret;
 
 	finfo.dir = dir;
 	if (stat(finfo.dir, &path_stat))
@@ -142,8 +143,9 @@ static void get_finfo(const char *dir)
 		     major(path_stat.st_dev), minor(path_stat.st_dev))
 	    >= sizeof(path))
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s: Pathname is too long\n", __func__);
-	if (!read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)))
-		ksft_exit_fail_perror("read_file(uevent)");
+	ret = read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf));
+	if (ret)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("read_file(%s): %s\n", path, strerror(-ret));
 	if (strstr(buf, "DEVTYPE=disk")) {
 		/* Found it */
 		if (snprintf(finfo.dev_queue_read_ahead_path,
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ static void *file_setup_area_common(int nr_hpages, enum file_setup_ops setup)
 {
 	const int open_opt = setup == FILE_SETUP_READ_ONLY_FS ? O_RDONLY : O_RDWR;
 	const int mmap_prot = setup == FILE_SETUP_READ_ONLY_FS ? PROT_READ : (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE);
-	int fd;
+	int fd, ret;
 	void *p;
 	unsigned long size;
 
@@ -368,7 +370,11 @@ static void *file_setup_area_common(int nr_hpages, enum file_setup_ops setup)
 		ksft_exit_fail_perror("mmap()");
 
 	/* Drop page cache */
-	write_file("/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", "3", 2);
+	ret = write_file("/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", "3", 2);
+	if (ret)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("write_file(drop_caches): %s\n",
+				   strerror(-ret));
+
 	success("OK");
 	return p;
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 86a603692826..5b0f77d12756 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -146,7 +146,10 @@ static void write_debugfs(const char *fmt, ...)
 	if (ret >= INPUT_MAX)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s: Debugfs input is too long\n", __func__);
 
-	write_file(SPLIT_DEBUGFS, input, ret + 1);
+	ret = write_file(SPLIT_DEBUGFS, input, ret + 1);
+	if (ret)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("write_file(%s): %s\n", SPLIT_DEBUGFS,
+				   strerror(-ret));
 }
 
 static char *allocate_zero_filled_hugepage(size_t len)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 80bc9f597b52..c1b8d60e519d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -891,109 +891,149 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
 
 int read_file(const char *path, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 {
-	int fd;
+	int fd, err;
 	ssize_t numread;
 
 	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd == -1)
-		return 0;
+		return -errno;
 
 	numread = read(fd, buf, buflen - 1);
 	if (numread < 1) {
+		err = numread ? errno : ENODATA;
 		close(fd);
-		return 0;
+		return -err;
 	}
 
 	buf[numread] = '\0';
 	close(fd);
 
-	return (unsigned int) numread;
+	return 0;
 }
 
-static void __write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen, bool ignore_einval)
+int write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
 {
 	int fd, saved_errno;
 	ssize_t numwritten;
 
 	if (buflen < 2)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Incorrect buffer len: %zu\n", buflen);
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
 	if (fd == -1)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s open failed: %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
+		return -errno;
 
 	numwritten = write(fd, buf, buflen - 1);
 	saved_errno = errno;
 	close(fd);
-	errno = saved_errno;
-	if (numwritten < 0) {
-		if (ignore_einval && errno == EINVAL)
-			return;
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%.*s) failed: %s\n", path, (int)(buflen - 1),
-				buf, strerror(errno));
-	}
-	if (numwritten != buflen - 1)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%.*s) is truncated, expected %zu bytes, got %zd bytes\n",
-				path, (int)(buflen - 1), buf, buflen - 1, numwritten);
-}
 
-void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen)
-{
-	__write_file(path, buf, buflen, /* ignore_einval = */ false);
+	if (numwritten < 0)
+		return -saved_errno;
+
+	if (numwritten != (ssize_t)(buflen - 1))
+		return -EIO;
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
-unsigned long read_num(const char *path)
+int read_num(const char *path, unsigned long *num)
 {
+	unsigned long val;
+	int ret;
 	char buf[21];
+	char *end;
 
-	if (!read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)))
-		ksft_exit_fail_perror("read_file()");
+	if (!num)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
-	return strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+	ret = read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf));
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	/* Reject signs and leading whitespace that are accepted by strtoul() */
+	if (buf[0] < '0' || buf[0] > '9')
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	errno = 0;
+	val = strtoul(buf, &end, 10);
+	if (errno)
+		return -errno;
+
+	/* Only allow a newline after the number */
+	if (*end == '\n')
+		end++;
+
+	if (*end != '\0')
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	*num = val;
+	return 0;
 }
 
-static void __write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num, bool ignore_einval)
+int write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num)
 {
 	char buf[21];
 
 	sprintf(buf, "%lu", num);
-	__write_file(path, buf, strlen(buf) + 1, ignore_einval);
+	return write_file(path, buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
 }
 
-void write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num)
+int write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num)
 {
-	return __write_num(path, num, /* ignore_einval = */ false);
-}
+	int ret;
 
-void write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num)
-{
-	return __write_num(path, num, /* ignore_einval = */ true);
+	ret = write_num(path, num);
+	return ret == -EINVAL ? 0 : ret;
 }
 
 static unsigned long shmall, shmmax;
 
 void __shm_limits_restore(void)
 {
-	if (shmmax)
-		write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", shmmax);
-	if (shmall)
-		write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall", shmall);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (shmmax) {
+		ret = write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", shmmax);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to restore shmmax: %s\n",
+					   strerror(-ret));
+	}
+	if (shmall) {
+		ret = write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall", shmall);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to restore shmall: %s\n",
+					   strerror(-ret));
+	}
 }
 
 void shm_limits_prepare(unsigned long length)
 {
 	unsigned long nr = length / psize();
 	unsigned long val;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = read_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", &val);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to read /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax: %s\n",
+				   strerror(-ret));
 
-	val = read_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax");
 	if (val < length) {
-		write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", length);
+		ret = write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", length);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to write %lu to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax: %s\n",
+					   length, strerror(-ret));
 		shmmax = val;
 	}
 
-	val = read_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall");
+	ret = read_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall", &val);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to read /proc/sys/kernel/shmall: %s\n",
+				   strerror(-ret));
 	if (val < nr) {
-		write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall", nr);
+		ret = write_num("/proc/sys/kernel/shmall", nr);
+		if (ret < 0)
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to write %lu to /proc/sys/kernel/shmall: %s\n",
+					   nr, strerror(-ret));
 		shmall = val;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 9a49af88702e..62f6f5b42649 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn);
 #define PAGEMAP_PRESENT(ent)	(((ent) & (1ull << 63)) != 0)
 #define PAGEMAP_PFN(ent)	((ent) & ((1ull << 55) - 1))
 
-void write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen);
+int write_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t buflen);
 int read_file(const char *path, char *buf, size_t buflen);
-unsigned long read_num(const char *path);
-void write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num);
-void write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num);
+int read_num(const char *path, unsigned long *num);
+int write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num);
+int write_num_ignore_einval(const char *path, unsigned long num);
 
 void shm_limits_prepare(unsigned long length);
 void __shm_limits_restore(void);
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-31  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-31  4:20 [PATCH v8 0/6] selftests/mm: separate GUP microbenchmarking from functional testing Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:20 ` Sarthak Sharma [this message]
2026-08-31  4:52   ` [PATCH v8 1/6] selftests/mm: make file helpers return errors Lance Yang
2026-08-31  5:16     ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:20 ` [PATCH v8 2/6] tools/lib/mm: add shared file helpers Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:20 ` [PATCH v8 3/6] tools/lib/mm: move hugepage_settings out of selftests Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:20 ` [PATCH v8 4/6] tools/mm: move gup_test from selftests/mm to tools/mm Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:21 ` [PATCH v8 5/6] tools/mm: make gup_bench a benchmark only tool Sarthak Sharma
2026-08-31  4:21 ` [PATCH v8 6/6] selftests/mm: add a GUP selftest Sarthak Sharma

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