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[2003:d8:2f22:600:53c7:df43:7dc3:ae39]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-3bb64758690sm12914199f8f.6.2025.08.18.06.06.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:06:00 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] selftests: prctl: introduce tests for disabling THPs except for madvise To: Usama Arif , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com, mhocko@suse.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, baohua@kernel.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, riel@surriel.com, ziy@nvidia.com, laoar.shao@gmail.com, dev.jain@arm.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, npache@redhat.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com, vbabka@suse.cz, jannh@google.com, Arnd Bergmann , sj@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com References: <20250815135549.130506-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com> <20250815135549.130506-8-usamaarif642@gmail.com> From: David Hildenbrand Content-Language: en-US Autocrypt: addr=david@redhat.com; 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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 15.08.25 15:54, Usama Arif wrote: > The test will set the global system THP setting to never, madvise > or always depending on the fixture variant and the 2M setting to > inherit before it starts (and reset to original at teardown). > The fixture setup will also test if PR_SET_THP_DISABLE prctl call can > be made with PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED and skip if it fails. > > This tests if the process can: > - successfully get the policy to disable THPs expect for madvise. > - get hugepages only on MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE if the global policy > is madvise/always and only with MADV_COLLAPSE if the global policy is > never. > - successfully reset the policy of the process. > - after reset, only get hugepages with: > - MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to never. > - MADV_HUGE and MADV_COLLAPSE when policy is set to madvise. > - always when policy is set to "always". > - never get a THP with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE. > - repeat the above tests in a forked process to make sure the policy is > carried across forks. > > Test results: > ./prctl_thp_disable > TAP version 13 > 1..12 > ok 1 prctl_thp_disable_completely.never.nofork > ok 2 prctl_thp_disable_completely.never.fork > ok 3 prctl_thp_disable_completely.madvise.nofork > ok 4 prctl_thp_disable_completely.madvise.fork > ok 5 prctl_thp_disable_completely.always.nofork > ok 6 prctl_thp_disable_completely.always.fork > ok 7 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.never.nofork > ok 8 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.never.fork > ok 9 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.madvise.nofork > ok 10 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.madvise.fork > ok 11 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.always.nofork > ok 12 prctl_thp_disable_except_madvise.always.fork > > Signed-off-by: Usama Arif > --- Acked-by: David Hildenbrand -- Cheers David / dhildenb