From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:58:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f9ae614f-beef-4e83-b307-d4e743d7062c@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260828-fix_split-v3-2-374022586a4b@arm.com>
On 8/28/26 4:11 PM, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> Since glibc commit 321e1fc73f (“malloc: Enable 2MB THP by default on AArch64”),
> glibc may call madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) for sufficiently large allocations
> made by memalign().
>
> The underlying VMA may start at a different address from the aligned
> address returned by memalign(). Furthermore, a subsequent
> madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call does not split the VMA because the flag is
> already set.
>
> This causes split_huge_page_test to fail because the check_huge_xxx()
> helpers incorrectly require the address returned by memalign() to
> match the VMA start address reported in /proc/self/smaps.
>
> Fix this by using /proc/self/pagemap and /proc/kpageflags instead of
> /proc/self/smaps to detect huge pages.
>
> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
> ---
LGTM, with comments from Lorenzo and Zi addressed.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-28 8:11 [PATCH v3 0/2] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 8:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 9:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-28 10:04 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 8:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 9:30 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-28 10:17 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 10:31 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-28 14:35 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28 17:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-28 15:13 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-28 15:22 ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-31 7:58 ` Baolin Wang [this message]
2026-09-01 8:06 ` Yeoreum Yun
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