From: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: mkoutny@suse.com, yosryahmed@google.com,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] selftests/cgroup: replace hardcoded page size values in test_zswap
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:01:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abNwF8sZaGEda-XJ@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO9r8zNfR5Z3g=SkU9-eEeA-DDY=rp0Tcw8sXKYDpkZtJtQ0sQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 03:44:09PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > test_zswap uses hardcoded values of 4095 and 4096 throughout as page
> > stride and page size, which are only correct on systems with a 4K page
> > size. On architectures with larger pages (e.g., 64K on arm64 or ppc64),
> > these constants cause memory to be touched at sub-page granularity,
> > leading to inefficient access patterns and incorrect page count
> > calculations, which can cause test failures.
> >
> > Replace all hardcoded 4095 and 4096 values with a global pagesize
> > variable initialized from sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) at startup, and remove
> > the redundant local sysconf() calls scattered across individual
> > functions. No functional change on 4K page size systems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
> > Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
> > Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> > Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> > Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
>
> It makes more sense to have this patch first, replacing all hardcoded
> values, then patch 5 doing the necessary changes on top.
Make sense.
--
Regards,
Li Wang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 4:06 [PATCH v2 1/7] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] selftests/cgroup: avoid OOM in test_swapin_nozswap Li Wang
2026-03-12 22:41 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] selftests/cgroup: use runtime page size for zswpin check Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] selftests/cgroup: rename PAGE_SIZE to BUF_SIZE in cgroup_util Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] selftests/cgroup: replace hardcoded page size values in test_zswap Li Wang
2026-03-12 22:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 2:01 ` Li Wang [this message]
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap attempt_writeback() on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-03-12 22:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-12 18:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Nhat Pham
2026-03-12 21:09 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 1:50 ` Li Wang
2026-03-13 2:58 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 3:23 ` Li Wang
2026-03-13 3:35 ` Li Wang
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