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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] selftests/mm: size tmpfs according to PMD page size in split_huge_page_test
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2a1adb3-7078-4979-8eac-579d86b3f244@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94c18dd26cf88f10b4b496cb3de08d81439a8909.1773305677.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
On 3/12/26 13:25, Sayali Patil wrote:
> The split_file_backed_thp() test mounts a tmpfs with a fixed size of
> "4m". This works on systems with smaller PMD page sizes,
> but fails on configurations where the PMD huge page size is
> larger (e.g. 16MB).
>
> On such systems, the fixed 4MB tmpfs is insufficient to allocate even
> a single PMD-sized THP, causing the test to fail.
>
> Fix this by sizing the tmpfs dynamically based on the runtime
> pmd_pagesize, allocating space for two PMD-sized pages.
>
> Before patch:
> running ./split_huge_page_test /tmp/xfs_dir_YTrI5E
> --------------------------------------------------
> TAP version 13
> 1..55
> ok 1 Split zero filled huge pages successful
> ok 2 Split huge pages to order 0 successful
> ok 3 Split huge pages to order 2 successful
> ok 4 Split huge pages to order 3 successful
> ok 5 Split huge pages to order 4 successful
> ok 6 Split huge pages to order 5 successful
> ok 7 Split huge pages to order 6 successful
> ok 8 Split huge pages to order 7 successful
> ok 9 Split PTE-mapped huge pages successful
> Please enable pr_debug in split_huge_pages_in_file() for more info.
> Failed to write data to testing file: Success (0)
> Bail out! Error occurred
> Planned tests != run tests (55 != 9)
> Totals: pass:9 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> [FAIL]
>
> After patch:
> --------------------------------------------------
> running ./split_huge_page_test /tmp/xfs_dir_bMvj6o
> --------------------------------------------------
> TAP version 13
> 1..55
> ok 1 Split zero filled huge pages successful
> ok 2 Split huge pages to order 0 successful
> ok 3 Split huge pages to order 2 successful
> ok 4 Split huge pages to order 3 successful
> ok 5 Split huge pages to order 4 successful
> ok 6 Split huge pages to order 5 successful
> ok 7 Split huge pages to order 6 successful
> ok 8 Split huge pages to order 7 successful
> ok 9 Split PTE-mapped huge pages successful
> Please enable pr_debug in split_huge_pages_in_file() for more info.
> Please check dmesg for more information
> ok 10 File-backed THP split to order 0 test done
> Please enable pr_debug in split_huge_pages_in_file() for more info.
> Please check dmesg for more information
> ok 11 File-backed THP split to order 1 test done
> Please enable pr_debug in split_huge_pages_in_file() for more info.
> Please check dmesg for more information
> ok 12 File-backed THP split to order 2 test done
> ...
> ok 55 Split PMD-mapped pagecache folio to order 7 at
> in-folio offset 128 passed
> Totals: pass:55 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> [PASS]
> ok 1 split_huge_page_test /tmp/xfs_dir_bMvj6o
>
> Fixes: fbe37501b252 ("mm: huge_memory: debugfs for file-backed THP split")
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 12:25 [PATCH v2 00/13] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] selftests/mm: restore default nr_hugepages value during cleanup in charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction " Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] selftests/mm: fix hugetlb pathname construction in hugetlb_reparenting_test.sh Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] selftest/mm: fix cgroup task placement and tolerance " Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] selftests/mm: size tmpfs according to PMD page size in split_huge_page_test Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:46 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] selftest/mm: adjust hugepage-mremap test size for large huge pages Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugepage-mremap Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed " Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-13 14:26 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-24 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-26 18:01 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-26 18:38 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] selftests/mm: fix double increment in linked list cleanup in compaction_test Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 12:25 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] selftests/cgroup: extend test_hugetlb_memcg.c to support all huge page sizes Sayali Patil
2026-03-12 22:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements Andrew Morton
2026-03-13 14:16 ` Sayali Patil
2026-03-17 6:00 ` Venkat Rao Bagalkote
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