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From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,  Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.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, Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:40:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820-fix_split-v1-1-ab430c58c7cf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260820-fix_split-v1-0-ab430c58c7cf@arm.com>

There're some random failure for split_huge_page_test when khugepaged
collapses pages into pmd again which had split by the test.

Prevent the khugepaged's collapses for split page by setting the
mapped pmd-huge-page with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE before split.

Reported-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 32b991472f744..99b45e5518199 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ static void verify_rss_anon_split_huge_page_all_zeroes(char *one_page, int nr_hp
 	if (!rss_anon_before)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("No RssAnon is allocated before split\n");
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madvise(one_page, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
 	/* split all THPs */
 	write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
 		      (uint64_t)one_page + len, 0);
@@ -350,6 +353,9 @@ static void split_pmd_thp_to_order(int order)
 	if (!check_huge_anon(one_page, 4, pmd_pagesize))
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("No THP is allocated\n");
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madvise(one_page, len, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
 	/* split all THPs */
 	write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)one_page,
 		(uint64_t)one_page + len, order);
@@ -436,6 +442,9 @@ static void split_pte_mapped_thp(void)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madvise(thp_area, thp_area_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
 	/* Split all THPs through the remapped pages. */
 	write_debugfs(PID_FMT, getpid(), (uint64_t)page_area,
 		      (uint64_t)page_area + page_area_size, 0);
@@ -665,6 +674,8 @@ static int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const char *testfile, size_t fd_size,
 		ksft_test_result_skip("Pagecache folio split skipped\n");
 		return -2;
 	}
+	/* Prevent khugepaged from collapsing the pages. */
+	madvise(*addr, fd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
 	return 0;
 err_out_close:
 	close(*fd);

-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-20 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-20 19:40 [PATCH 0/2] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:40 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-08-20 19:51   ` [PATCH 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Zi Yan
2026-08-20 21:23     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 23:37       ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 23:55         ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-20 19:55   ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 21:26     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-21  0:09       ` Zi Yan
2026-08-21  0:26         ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-21  1:19           ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-21  1:40           ` Zi Yan
2026-08-20 23:49   ` Yeoreum Yun

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