From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: skhan@linuxfoundation.org,rppt@kernel.org,peterx@redhat.com,naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev,mhocko@suse.com,david@redhat.com,axelrasmussen@google.com,almasrymina@google.com,aarcange@redhat.com,mike.kravetz@oracle.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org,patches@lists.linux.dev,linux-mm@kvack.org,mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,torvalds@linux-foundation.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [patch 097/114] userfaultfd/selftests: enable hugetlb remap and remove event testing
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:13:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220325011325.13069C340ED@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220324180758.96b1ac7e17675d6bc474485e@linux-foundation.org>
From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Subject: userfaultfd/selftests: enable hugetlb remap and remove event testing
With MADV_DONTNEED support added to hugetlb mappings, mremap testing can
also be enabled for hugetlb.
Modify the tests to use madvise MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE instead of
fallocate hole puch for releasing hugetlb pages.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220215002348.128823-4-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh | 3
tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c | 69 ++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh~userfaultfd-selftests-enable-hugetlb-remap-and-remove-event-testing
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -208,14 +208,13 @@ echo "running userfaultfd_hugetlb"
echo "---------------------------"
# Test requires source and destination huge pages. Size of source
# (half_ufd_size_MB) is passed as argument to test.
-./userfaultfd hugetlb $half_ufd_size_MB 32 $mnt/ufd_test_file
+./userfaultfd hugetlb $half_ufd_size_MB 32
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "[FAIL]"
exitcode=1
else
echo "[PASS]"
fi
-rm -f $mnt/ufd_test_file
echo "-------------------------"
echo "running userfaultfd_shmem"
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-selftests-enable-hugetlb-remap-and-remove-event-testing
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ static bool test_uffdio_minor = false;
static bool map_shared;
static int shm_fd;
static int huge_fd;
-static char *huge_fd_off0;
static unsigned long long *count_verify;
static int uffd = -1;
static int uffd_flags, finished, *pipefd;
@@ -128,9 +127,9 @@ const char *examples =
"./userfaultfd anon 100 99999\n\n"
"# Run share memory test on 1GiB region with 99 bounces:\n"
"./userfaultfd shmem 1000 99\n\n"
- "# Run hugetlb memory test on 256MiB region with 50 bounces (using /dev/hugepages/hugefile):\n"
- "./userfaultfd hugetlb 256 50 /dev/hugepages/hugefile\n\n"
- "# Run the same hugetlb test but using shmem:\n"
+ "# Run hugetlb memory test on 256MiB region with 50 bounces:\n"
+ "./userfaultfd hugetlb 256 50\n\n"
+ "# Run the same hugetlb test but using shared file:\n"
"./userfaultfd hugetlb_shared 256 50 /dev/hugepages/hugefile\n\n"
"# 10MiB-~6GiB 999 bounces anonymous test, "
"continue forever unless an error triggers\n"
@@ -227,10 +226,13 @@ static void noop_alias_mapping(__u64 *st
static void hugetlb_release_pages(char *rel_area)
{
- if (fallocate(huge_fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
- rel_area == huge_fd_off0 ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size,
- nr_pages * page_size))
- err("fallocate() failed");
+ if (!map_shared) {
+ if (madvise(rel_area, nr_pages * page_size, MADV_DONTNEED))
+ err("madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) failed");
+ } else {
+ if (madvise(rel_area, nr_pages * page_size, MADV_REMOVE))
+ err("madvise(MADV_REMOVE) failed");
+ }
}
static void hugetlb_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
@@ -238,26 +240,37 @@ static void hugetlb_allocate_area(void *
void *area_alias = NULL;
char **alloc_area_alias;
- *alloc_area = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
- (map_shared ? MAP_SHARED : MAP_PRIVATE) |
- MAP_HUGETLB |
- (*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
- huge_fd, *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 :
- nr_pages * page_size);
+ if (!map_shared)
+ *alloc_area = mmap(NULL,
+ nr_pages * page_size,
+ PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB |
+ (*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
+ -1,
+ 0);
+ else
+ *alloc_area = mmap(NULL,
+ nr_pages * page_size,
+ PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_SHARED |
+ (*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
+ huge_fd,
+ *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size);
if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED)
err("mmap of hugetlbfs file failed");
if (map_shared) {
- area_alias = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
- MAP_SHARED | MAP_HUGETLB,
- huge_fd, *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 :
- nr_pages * page_size);
+ area_alias = mmap(NULL,
+ nr_pages * page_size,
+ PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_SHARED,
+ huge_fd,
+ *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size);
if (area_alias == MAP_FAILED)
err("mmap of hugetlb file alias failed");
}
if (*alloc_area == area_src) {
- huge_fd_off0 = *alloc_area;
alloc_area_alias = &area_src_alias;
} else {
alloc_area_alias = &area_dst_alias;
@@ -270,12 +283,7 @@ static void hugetlb_alias_mapping(__u64
{
if (!map_shared)
return;
- /*
- * We can't zap just the pagetable with hugetlbfs because
- * MADV_DONTEED won't work. So exercise -EEXIST on a alias
- * mapping where the pagetables are not established initially,
- * this way we'll exercise the -EEXEC at the fs level.
- */
+
*start = (unsigned long) area_dst_alias + offset;
}
@@ -428,7 +436,6 @@ static void uffd_test_ctx_clear(void)
uffd = -1;
}
- huge_fd_off0 = NULL;
munmap_area((void **)&area_src);
munmap_area((void **)&area_src_alias);
munmap_area((void **)&area_dst);
@@ -926,10 +933,7 @@ static int faulting_process(int signal_t
struct sigaction act;
unsigned long signalled = 0;
- if (test_type != TEST_HUGETLB)
- split_nr_pages = (nr_pages + 1) / 2;
- else
- split_nr_pages = nr_pages;
+ split_nr_pages = (nr_pages + 1) / 2;
if (signal_test) {
sigbuf = &jbuf;
@@ -986,9 +990,6 @@ static int faulting_process(int signal_t
if (signal_test)
return signalled != split_nr_pages;
- if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB)
- return 0;
-
area_dst = mremap(area_dst, nr_pages * page_size, nr_pages * page_size,
MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, area_src);
if (area_dst == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -1676,7 +1677,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
}
nr_pages = nr_pages_per_cpu * nr_cpus;
- if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB) {
+ if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB && map_shared) {
if (argc < 5)
usage();
huge_fd = open(argv[4], O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
_
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2022-03-25 1:07 incoming Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 001/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: sort by stacktrace before culling Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 002/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: support sorting by stack trace Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 003/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: add switch between culling by stacktrace and txt Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 004/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: support sorting pid and time Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 005/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: two trivial fixes Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 006/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: delete invalid duplicate code Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 007/114] Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: update the documentation Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:08 ` [patch 008/114] Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst: fix unexpected indentation warns Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 009/114] lib/vsprintf: avoid redundant work with 0 size Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 010/114] mm/page_owner: use scnprintf() to avoid excessive buffer overrun check Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 011/114] mm/page_owner: print memcg information Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 012/114] mm/page_owner: record task command name Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 013/114] mm/page_owner.c: record tgid Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 014/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: fix the instructions for use Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 015/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: fix comments Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 016/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: add a security check Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 017/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: support sorting by tgid and update documentation Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 018/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort: fix three trivival places Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 019/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort: support for sorting by task command name Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 020/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: support for selecting by PID, TGID or " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 021/114] tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: support for user-defined culling rules Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 022/114] mm: unexport page_init_poison Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 023/114] selftest/vm: add util.h and and move helper functions there Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 024/114] selftest/vm: add helpers to detect PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_SHIFT Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 025/114] mm: delete __ClearPageWaiters() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 026/114] mm: filemap_unaccount_folio() large skip mapcount fixup Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 027/114] mm/thp: fix NR_FILE_MAPPED accounting in page_*_file_rmap() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:09 ` [patch 028/114] mm/migration: add trace events for THP migrations Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 029/114] mm/migration: add trace events for base page and HugeTLB migrations Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 030/114] kasan, page_alloc: deduplicate should_skip_kasan_poison Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 031/114] kasan, page_alloc: move tag_clear_highpage out of kernel_init_free_pages Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 032/114] kasan, page_alloc: merge kasan_free_pages into free_pages_prepare Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 033/114] kasan, page_alloc: simplify kasan_poison_pages call site Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 034/114] kasan, page_alloc: init memory of skipped pages on free Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 035/114] kasan: drop skip_kasan_poison variable in free_pages_prepare Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 036/114] mm: clarify __GFP_ZEROTAGS comment Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 037/114] kasan: only apply __GFP_ZEROTAGS when memory is zeroed Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 038/114] kasan, page_alloc: refactor init checks in post_alloc_hook Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 039/114] kasan, page_alloc: merge kasan_alloc_pages into post_alloc_hook Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 040/114] kasan, page_alloc: combine tag_clear_highpage calls in post_alloc_hook Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 041/114] kasan, page_alloc: move SetPageSkipKASanPoison " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 042/114] kasan, page_alloc: move kernel_init_free_pages " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 043/114] kasan, page_alloc: rework kasan_unpoison_pages call site Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 044/114] kasan: clean up metadata byte definitions Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 045/114] kasan: define KASAN_VMALLOC_INVALID for SW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 046/114] kasan, x86, arm64, s390: rename functions for modules shadow Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 047/114] kasan, vmalloc: drop outdated VM_KASAN comment Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:10 ` [patch 048/114] kasan: reorder vmalloc hooks Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 049/114] kasan: add wrappers for " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 050/114] kasan, vmalloc: reset tags in vmalloc functions Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 051/114] kasan, fork: reset pointer tags of vmapped stacks Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 052/114] kasan, arm64: " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 053/114] kasan, vmalloc: add vmalloc tagging for SW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 054/114] kasan, vmalloc, arm64: mark vmalloc mappings as pgprot_tagged Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 055/114] kasan, vmalloc: unpoison VM_ALLOC pages after mapping Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 056/114] kasan, mm: only define ___GFP_SKIP_KASAN_POISON with HW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 057/114] kasan, page_alloc: allow skipping unpoisoning for HW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 058/114] kasan, page_alloc: allow skipping memory init " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 059/114] kasan, vmalloc: add vmalloc tagging " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 060/114] kasan, vmalloc: only tag normal vmalloc allocations Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 061/114] kasan, arm64: don't tag executable " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 062/114] kasan: mark kasan_arg_stacktrace as __initdata Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 063/114] kasan: clean up feature flags for HW_TAGS mode Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 064/114] kasan: add kasan.vmalloc command line flag Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 065/114] kasan: allow enabling KASAN_VMALLOC and SW/HW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 066/114] arm64: select KASAN_VMALLOC for SW/HW_TAGS modes Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 067/114] kasan: documentation updates Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:11 ` [patch 068/114] kasan: improve vmalloc tests Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 069/114] kasan: test: support async (again) and asymm modes for HW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 070/114] mm/kasan: remove unnecessary CONFIG_KASAN option Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 071/114] kasan: update function name in comments Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 072/114] kasan: print virtual mapping info in reports Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 073/114] kasan: drop addr check from describe_object_addr Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 074/114] kasan: more line breaks in reports Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 075/114] kasan: rearrange stack frame info " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 076/114] kasan: improve " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 077/114] kasan: print basic stack frame info for SW_TAGS Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 078/114] kasan: simplify async check in end_report() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 079/114] kasan: simplify kasan_update_kunit_status() and call sites Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 080/114] kasan: check CONFIG_KASAN_KUNIT_TEST instead of CONFIG_KUNIT Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 081/114] kasan: move update_kunit_status to start_report Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 082/114] kasan: move disable_trace_on_warning " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 083/114] kasan: split out print_report from __kasan_report Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 084/114] kasan: simplify kasan_find_first_bad_addr call sites Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 085/114] kasan: restructure kasan_report Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 086/114] kasan: merge __kasan_report into kasan_report Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 087/114] kasan: call print_report from kasan_report_invalid_free Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:12 ` [patch 088/114] kasan: move and simplify kasan_report_async Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 089/114] kasan: rename kasan_access_info to kasan_report_info Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 090/114] kasan: add comment about UACCESS regions to kasan_report Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 091/114] kasan: respect KASAN_BIT_REPORTED in all reporting routines Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 092/114] kasan: reorder reporting functions Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 093/114] kasan: move and hide kasan_save_enable/restore_multi_shot Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 094/114] kasan: disable LOCKDEP when printing reports Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 095/114] mm: enable MADV_DONTNEED for hugetlb mappings Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 096/114] selftests/vm: add hugetlb madvise MADV_DONTNEED MADV_REMOVE test Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 098/114] mm/huge_memory: make is_transparent_hugepage() static Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 099/114] mm: optimize do_wp_page() for exclusive pages in the swapcache Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 100/114] mm: optimize do_wp_page() for fresh pages in local LRU pagevecs Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 101/114] mm: slightly clarify KSM logic in do_swap_page() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 102/114] mm: streamline COW " Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 103/114] mm/huge_memory: streamline COW logic in do_huge_pmd_wp_page() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 104/114] mm/khugepaged: remove reuse_swap_page() usage Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 105/114] mm/swapfile: remove stale reuse_swap_page() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 106/114] mm/huge_memory: remove stale page_trans_huge_mapcount() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 107/114] mm/huge_memory: remove stale locking logic from __split_huge_pmd() Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:13 ` [patch 108/114] mm: warn on deleting redirtied only if accounted Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:14 ` [patch 109/114] mm: unmap_mapping_range_tree() with i_mmap_rwsem shared Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:14 ` [patch 111/114] mm: fix race between MADV_FREE reclaim and blkdev direct IO read Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:14 ` [patch 112/114] mm: madvise: MADV_DONTNEED_LOCKED Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:14 ` [patch 113/114] selftests: vm: remove dependecy from internal kernel macros Andrew Morton
2022-03-25 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-03-25 1:14 ` [patch 114/114] selftests: kselftest framework: provide "finished" helper Andrew Morton
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