[PATCH v4 10/15] selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed in hugepage-mremap

Sayali Patil
2026-04-06T09:20:53Z

The hugepage-mremap selftest reserves the destination address using a
anonymous base-page mapping before calling mremap() with MREMAP_FIXED,
while the source region is hugetlb-backed.

When remapping a hugetlb mapping into a base-page VMA may fail with:

mremap: Device or resource busy

This is observed on powerpc hash MMU systems where slice constraints
and page size incompatibilities prevent the remap.

Ensure the destination region is created using MAP_HUGETLB so that both
source and destination VMAs are hugetlb-backed and compatible.

Update the FLAGS macro to include MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_SHARED
so that both mappings are hugetlb-backed and compatible.
Also use the macro for the mmap() calls to avoid repeating
the flag combination.

This ensures the test reliably exercises hugetlb mremap instead of
failing due to VMA type mismatch.

Fixes: 12b613206474 ("mm, hugepages: add hugetlb vma mremap() test")
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
index 68c35d1d8a5f..a442d01908cc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
#define MB_TO_BYTES(x) (x * 1024 * 1024)

#define PROTECTION (PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC)
-#define FLAGS (MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS)
+#define FLAGS (MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_SHARED)
#define ALIGN(x, a) (((x) + ((a) - 1)) & ~((a) - 1))

static void check_bytes(char *addr)
@@ -131,23 +131,20 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])

/* mmap to a PUD aligned address to hopefully trigger pmd sharing. */
unsigned long suggested_addr = 0x7eaa40000000;
- void *haddr = mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION,
- MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_SHARED | MAP_POPULATE, fd, 0);
+ void *haddr = mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
ksft_print_msg("Map haddr: Returned address is %p\n", haddr);
if (haddr == MAP_FAILED)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap1: %s\n", strerror(errno));

/* mmap again to a dummy address to hopefully trigger pmd sharing. */
suggested_addr = 0x7daa40000000;
- void *daddr = mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION,
- MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_SHARED | MAP_POPULATE, fd, 0);
+ void *daddr = mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
ksft_print_msg("Map daddr: Returned address is %p\n", daddr);
if (daddr == MAP_FAILED)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap3: %s\n", strerror(errno));

suggested_addr = 0x7faa40000000;
- void *vaddr =
- mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION, FLAGS, -1, 0);
+ void *vaddr = mmap((void *)suggested_addr, length, PROTECTION, FLAGS, fd, 0);
ksft_print_msg("Map vaddr: Returned address is %p\n", vaddr);
if (vaddr == MAP_FAILED)
ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap2: %s\n", strerror(errno));
--
2.52.0