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From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,  Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	 Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	 Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	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>,
	 Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/3] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:09:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902-fix_split-v4-1-85f03905f7b1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902-fix_split-v4-0-85f03905f7b1@arm.com>

There're some random failure for split_huge_page_test when khugepaged
collapses pages into pmd again which had split by the test.

Prevent the khugepaged's collapses for split page by setting the
mapped pmd-huge-page with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE before split.

Suggested-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 86a603692826..4bbad892bc57 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -168,6 +168,14 @@ static char *allocate_zero_filled_hugepage(size_t len)
 	return result;
 }
 
+static void madv_nohuge(void *addr, size_t len)
+{
+	if (!madvise(addr, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE))
+		return;
+
+	ksft_exit_fail_msg("MADV_NOHUGEPAGE failed, err=%d\n", errno);
+}
+
 static void verify_rss_anon_split_huge_page_all_zeroes(char *one_page, int nr_hpages, size_t len)
 {
 	unsigned long rss_anon_before, rss_anon_after;
@@ -180,6 +188,9 @@ static void verify_rss_anon_split_huge_page_all_zeroes(char *one_page, int nr_hp
 	if (!rss_anon_before)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("No RssAnon is allocated before split\n");
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madv_nohuge(one_page, len);
+
 	/* split all THPs */
 	write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
 		      (uint64_t)one_page + len, 0);
@@ -227,6 +238,9 @@ static void split_pmd_thp_to_order(int order)
 	if (!check_huge_anon(one_page, 4 * pmd_pagesize, 4, pmd_pagesize))
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("No THP is allocated\n");
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madv_nohuge(one_page, len);
+
 	/* split all THPs */
 	write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
 		(uint64_t)one_page + len, order);
@@ -275,6 +289,9 @@ static void split_pte_mapped_thp(void)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madv_nohuge(thp_area, thp_area_size);
+
 	/*
 	 * To challenge spitting code, we will mremap a single page of each
 	 * THP (page[i] of thp[i]) in the thp_area into page_area. This will
@@ -542,6 +559,8 @@ static int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const char *testfile, size_t fd_size,
 		ksft_test_result_skip("Pagecache folio split skipped\n");
 		return -2;
 	}
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madv_nohuge(*addr, fd_size);
 	return 0;
 err_out_close:
 	close(*fd);

-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-02 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 12:09 [PATCH v4 0/3] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-09-02 14:16   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Zi Yan
2026-09-02 15:15   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 15:16     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-02 15:33     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-09-02 12:09 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] kselftest: mm: introduce alloc_isolated_mem() Yeoreum Yun

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