From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Yury Khrustalev <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
"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>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] selftests/mm: remove the local PKEY_UNRESTRICTED fallback
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:17:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819074717.1345749-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260818114945.1312987-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
pkey-helpers.h defines PKEY_UNRESTRICTED itself when the macro is not
already known, a stopgap from when the generic definition was still
under review. It has been merged since, commit 6d61527d931b ("mm/pkey:
Add PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro"), so the guard is never taken and the FIXME
can be honoured.
The definition comes from tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
via TOOLS_INCLUDES, which commit e076eaca5906 ("selftests: break the
dependency upon local header files") added so that the mm selftests
build without "make headers". It is reached through the
<asm-generic/mman.h> that the system <asm/mman.h> includes. Building
the pkey tests with KHDR_INCLUDES pointing at an empty directory
confirms that; emptying TOOLS_INCLUDES as well is what makes the macro
go missing.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop the incorrect claim that the mm selftests are built against the
headers of the kernel source and would fail without "make headers".
They are not, as Lorenzo pointed out; describe where the definition
really comes from instead.
- Leave tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/include/pkeys.h alone, as
discussed with David on v1. Unlike the mm one it is an unconditional
#undef/#define next to other powerpc specific overrides, and that
header only includes <sys/mman.h>, which does not provide
PKEY_UNRESTRICTED with or without TOOLS_INCLUDES, so its definition
is load bearing.
The full include path, for reference:
pkey-helpers.h
-> <linux/mman.h> tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h
-> <asm/mman.h> /usr/include/asm/mman.h
(tools/include/uapi/asm/mman.h does not exist)
-> <asm-generic/mman.h> tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h
-> <asm-generic/mman-common-tools.h>
-> <asm-generic/mman-common.h> PKEY_UNRESTRICTED
With KHDR_INCLUDES pointing at an empty directory the tests still build,
and cpp -dD reports the macro coming from
tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h. Emptying TOOLS_INCLUDES
as well gives:
pkey-helpers.h:188:30: error: 'PKEY_UNRESTRICTED' undeclared
pkey_sighandler_tests and mseal_test are byte identical before and
after; protection_keys differs only in the __LINE__ values that
pkey-helpers.h embeds into its debug output.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260818114945.1312987-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com/
tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h
index 2c377f4e9df1..626c2e1655dc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pkey-helpers.h
@@ -112,13 +112,6 @@ void record_pkey_malloc(void *ptr, long size, int prot);
#define PKEY_MASK (PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS | PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE)
#endif
-/*
- * FIXME: Remove once the generic PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition is merged.
- */
-#ifndef PKEY_UNRESTRICTED
-#define PKEY_UNRESTRICTED 0x0
-#endif
-
#ifndef set_pkey_bits
static inline u64 set_pkey_bits(u64 reg, int pkey, u64 flags)
{
--
2.43.7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-19 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-18 11:49 [PATCH] selftests/mm: remove the local PKEY_UNRESTRICTED fallback Hemanth Selam
2026-08-18 13:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-18 13:29 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-18 14:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-18 14:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-19 7:47 ` Hemanth Selam
2026-08-19 7:47 ` Hemanth Selam [this message]
2026-08-19 14:15 ` [PATCH v2] " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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