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 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:40:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820-fix_split-v1-1-ab430c58c7cf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260820-fix_split-v1-0-ab430c58c7cf@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.
Reported-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 32b991472f744..99b45e5518199 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ 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. */
+ madvise(one_page, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
/* split all THPs */
write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
(uint64_t)one_page + len, 0);
@@ -350,6 +353,9 @@ static void split_pmd_thp_to_order(int order)
if (!check_huge_anon(one_page, 4, pmd_pagesize))
ksft_exit_fail_msg("No THP is allocated\n");
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madvise(one_page, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
/* split all THPs */
write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
(uint64_t)one_page + len, order);
@@ -436,6 +442,9 @@ static void split_pte_mapped_thp(void)
goto out;
}
+ /* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+ madvise(thp_area, thp_area_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
/* Split all THPs through the remapped pages. */
write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)page_area,
(uint64_t)page_area + page_area_size, 0);
@@ -665,6 +674,8 @@ 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. */
+ madvise(*addr, fd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
return 0;
err_out_close:
close(*fd);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-20 19:40 [PATCH 0/2] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:40 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-08-20 19:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Zi Yan
2026-08-20 21:23 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 23:37 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 23:55 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:55 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 21:26 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-21 0:09 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-21 0:26 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-21 1:19 ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-21 1:40 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 23:49 ` Yeoreum Yun
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