From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:43:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb189211-d139-4eac-b4f9-ceceaff52704@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260809-selftests-thuge-gen-fix-v1-1-1919f4b3d12f@kernel.org>
On 8/9/26 10:03, Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) wrote:
> Commit 49a4e7186b08 ("selftests/mm: thuge-gen: add setup of HugeTLB pages")
> changed thuge-gen test to use common functions for reading hugetlb
> attributes from sysfs, but it missed that the original read_free() function
> special cased PAGE_SIZE tests.
>
> For PAGE_SIZE tests, failure to read sysfs was ignored and read_free()
> returned 0.
>
> This allowed test_shmget() to essentially skip the check of how many huge
> pages was consumed when it ran with PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Commit 3199b0c09efa ("selftests/mm: fix read_file() return value check")
> fixed the common read_file() to actually return error on failure and this
> exposed the issue in test_shmget() that checks the number of free hugetlb
> pages even for PAGE_SIZE test, tries to access
>
> /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-<PAGE_SIZE>/free_hugepages
>
> and obviously fails there.
>
> Gate the checks for free huge pages on size != getpagesize() and initialize
> before and after variables to values matching PAGE_SIZE test.
>
> Fixes: 49a4e7186b08 ("selftests/mm: thuge-gen: add setup of HugeTLB pages")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
Heh :)
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
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2026-08-09 8:03 [PATCH] selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)
2026-08-11 15:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-08-11 16:20 ` Andrew Morton
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