From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/13] selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 16:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455a3f72-a513-4fe5-8b8d-31d07cb3b0a7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a4106d7c594c5bb471a48ca37348883e204d295.1774591179.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
On 3/27/26 08:16, Sayali Patil wrote:
> uffd-stress currently fails when the computed nr_pages_per_cpu
> evaluates to zero:
>
> nr_pages_per_cpu = bytes / page_size / nr_parallel
>
> This can occur on systems with large hugepage sizes (e.g. 1GB) and a
> high number of CPUs, where the total allocated memory is sufficient
> overall but not enough to provide at least one page per cpu.
>
> In such cases, the failure is due to insufficient test resources
> rather than incorrect kernel behaviour. Update the test
> to treat this condition as a test skip instead of reporting an error.
>
> Fixes: db0f1c138f18 ("selftests/mm: print some details when uffd-stress gets bad params")
> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-01 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-27 7:15 [PATCH v3 00/13] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] selftests/mm: restore default nr_hugepages value during cleanup in charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:52 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 16:05 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction " Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-27 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction in hugetlb_reparenting_test.sh Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-27 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] selftest/mm: fix cgroup task placement and drop memory.current checks " Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:08 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-03 19:59 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:15 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] selftests/mm: size tmpfs according to PMD page size in split_huge_page_test Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 16:20 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] selftest/mm: adjust hugepage-mremap test size for large huge pages Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:10 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 20:45 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugepage-mremap Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 14:43 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-02 7:31 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-03 17:41 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed " Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:21 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 14:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-04-01 20:39 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-02 7:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 9:05 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-04-03 17:41 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-07 10:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported Sayali Patil
2026-04-02 6:59 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:23 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] selftests/mm: fix double increment in linked list cleanup in compaction_test Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:32 ` Sayali Patil
2026-04-01 14:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 17:33 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category Sayali Patil
2026-04-02 7:15 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 7:16 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] selftests/cgroup: extend test_hugetlb_memcg.c to support all huge page sizes Sayali Patil
2026-04-03 17:16 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-27 18:11 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Andrew Morton
2026-03-30 5:57 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-30 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2026-04-01 14:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 15:03 ` Sayali Patil
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