Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] selftests/mm: fix invocation of tests that are run via shell scripts

[Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>]

On 6/6/23 12:16 PM, John Hubbard wrote:
> We cannot depend upon git to reliably retain the executable bit on shell
> scripts, or so I was told several years ago while working on this same
> run_vmtests.sh script. And sure enough, things such as test_hmm.sh are
> lately failing to run, due to lacking execute permissions.
> 
> Fix this by explicitly adding "bash" to each of the shell script
> invocations. Leave fixing the overall approach to another day.
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> index 4893eb60d96d..8f81432e4bac 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> @@ -242,18 +242,18 @@ if [ $VADDR64 -ne 0 ]; then
>  	if [ "$ARCH" == "$ARCH_ARM64" ]; then
>  		echo 6 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
>  	fi
> -	CATEGORY="hugevm" run_test ./va_high_addr_switch.sh
> +	CATEGORY="hugevm" run_test bash ./va_high_addr_switch.sh
>  	if [ "$ARCH" == "$ARCH_ARM64" ]; then
>  		echo $prev_nr_hugepages > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
>  	fi
>  fi # VADDR64
>  
>  # vmalloc stability smoke test
> -CATEGORY="vmalloc" run_test ./test_vmalloc.sh smoke
> +CATEGORY="vmalloc" run_test bash ./test_vmalloc.sh smoke
>  
>  CATEGORY="mremap" run_test ./mremap_dontunmap
>  
> -CATEGORY="hmm" run_test ./test_hmm.sh smoke
> +CATEGORY="hmm" run_test bash ./test_hmm.sh smoke
>  
>  # MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE tests
>  CATEGORY="madv_populate" run_test ./madv_populate

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum