From: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
To: 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: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, 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,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] selftests/mm: handle EINVAL when configuring gigantic hugepages
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:02:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d394c8cd59fe380d4e2d13b051544f241918f07.1782811071.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1782811071.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Some MM selftests attempt to configure the amount of
HugeTLB pages of different sizes by writing to nr_hugepages.
PowerPC hash MMU pSeries systems advertise gigantic hugepage sizes
but do not support runtime allocation of such pages, writes
to the corresponding nr_hugepages file fail with -EINVAL.
This causes the test to bail out even though the failure is due
to a platform limitation rather than the
functionality being tested.
Treat -EINVAL from the sysfs write as a skipped configuration request
and continue running the test instead of failing.
Before patch:
-------------------------
running ./hugetlb-madvise
-------------------------
TAP version 13
1..1
[INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB
[INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB
ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb
Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
Bail out! /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB/nr_hugepages
write(0) failed: Invalid argument
Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
[FAIL]
After patch:
-------------------------
running ./hugetlb-madvise
-------------------------
TAP version 13
1..1
[INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB
[INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB
ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb
Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB/nr_hugepages
write(0) failed: Invalid argument
[PASS]
Fixes: 27477b28b74f ("selftests/mm: hugepage_settings: add APIs to get and set nr_hugepages")
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
---
.../testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++-
.../testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
index 2eab2110ac6a..ce38ae3da01a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c
@@ -422,6 +422,36 @@ static void hugetlb_sysfs_path(char *buf, size_t buflen,
size / 1024, attr);
}
+void hugetlb_write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num)
+{
+ int fd, saved_errno;
+ ssize_t numwritten;
+ char buf[21];
+
+ sprintf(buf, "%lu", num);
+
+ fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s open failed: %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
+
+ numwritten = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf));
+ saved_errno = errno;
+ close(fd);
+ errno = saved_errno;
+
+ /* Treat EINVAL as a skipped configuration (e.g., unsupported gigantic pages) */
+ if (numwritten < 0 && errno == EINVAL) {
+ ksft_print_msg("%s write(%s) failed: %s\n", path, buf, strerror(errno));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (numwritten < 0)
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%s) failed: %s\n", path, buf, strerror(errno));
+ if (numwritten != strlen(buf))
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s write(%s) is truncated, expected %zu bytes, got %zd bytes\n",
+ path, buf, strlen(buf), numwritten);
+}
+
unsigned long hugetlb_nr_pages(unsigned long size)
{
char path[PATH_MAX];
@@ -437,7 +467,7 @@ void hugetlb_set_nr_pages(unsigned long size, unsigned long nr)
hugetlb_sysfs_path(path, sizeof(path), size, "nr_hugepages");
- write_num(path, nr);
+ hugetlb_write_num(path, nr);
}
unsigned long hugetlb_free_pages(unsigned long size)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.h
index 726c73c43c05..390fcc483b9e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ bool thp_is_enabled(void);
int detect_hugetlb_page_sizes(unsigned long sizes[], int max);
unsigned long default_huge_page_size(void);
+void hugetlb_write_num(const char *path, unsigned long num);
unsigned long hugetlb_nr_pages(unsigned long size);
void hugetlb_set_nr_pages(unsigned long size, unsigned long nr);
unsigned long hugetlb_free_pages(unsigned long size);
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-30 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-30 9:32 [PATCH v2 0/3] selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests Sayali Patil
2026-06-30 9:32 ` Sayali Patil [this message]
2026-06-30 10:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] selftests/mm: handle EINVAL when configuring gigantic hugepages David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-30 20:20 ` Sayali Patil
2026-07-01 8:48 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 7:01 ` Sayali Patil
2026-06-30 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] selftests/mm: fix ksm NUMA merge test for systems with memoryless NUMA nodes Sayali Patil
2026-06-30 10:45 ` Sayali Patil
2026-06-30 9:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] selftests/mm: fix ternary operator precedence in ksm_tests Sayali Patil
2026-06-30 10:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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