Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/mm: load xfs before checking for it in run_vmtests.sh

["Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga" <azpijr@gmail.com>]

On 10/29/26 7:24 AM, Qiliang Yuan wrote:
> run_vmtests.sh creates a loop-mounted XFS for "khugepaged all:file" and
> for the pagecache folio split cases of split_huge_page_test, since
> tmpfs does not give them large pagecache folios.
> 
> It only does so when xfs already shows up in /proc/filesystems. When
> xfs is built as a module that is not loaded yet, the check fails, no
> XFS is created, "khugepaged all:file" is reported as skipped and every
> pagecache folio split case of split_huge_page_test is skipped with "No
> large pagecache folio generated".
> 
> Load xfs with load_module() when it is not registered yet, so that it
> is unloaded again once the script is done. Match xfs as a whole word,
> as "selinuxfs" contains it too, as does "vxfs" on kernels before 7.3,
> and would otherwise skip the load and leave xfs to be loaded by
> mount(). "run_vmtests.sh -t thp" with xfs built as a module and not
> loaded:
> 
>                                         before    after
>   khugepaged all:file                  skipped      run
>   skipped split_huge_page_test cases        43        0
>   xfs loaded after the run                  no       no
>   xfs loaded after the run, with
>   selinuxfs or vxfs registered             yes       no
> 
> Fixes: fc4d182316bd ("mm: huge_memory: enable debugfs to split huge pages to any order")
> Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <odys.yuan@gmail.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> index e104a9c6fdefb..b422edc2e2664 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
> @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ CATEGORY="thp" run_test ./khugepaged -s 4 all:shmem
>  # Try to create XFS if not provided
>  if [ -z "${SPLIT_HUGE_PAGE_TEST_XFS_PATH}" ]; then
>      if test_selected "thp"; then
> -	if grep xfs /proc/filesystems &>/dev/null; then
> +	if grep -qw xfs /proc/filesystems || load_module xfs; then
>  	    XFS_IMG=$(mktemp /tmp/xfs_img_XXXXXX)
>  	    XFS_DIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/xfs_dir_XXXXXX)
>  	    truncate -s 314572800 ${XFS_IMG}
> 


tested it on x86_64 in qemu with lockdep and DEBUG_VM, xfs as a module
and with SELinux on and off. LGTM so:

Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com>

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cheers,
jose a. p-a