+ kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

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The patch titled
     Subject: kselftest: mm: remove exclusion of building soft-dirty test in arm64
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: kselftest: mm: remove exclusion of building soft-dirty test in arm64
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:06:11 +0100

Since commit 0389c305ef56 (“selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when
CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled”), the soft-dirty test is skipped when
soft-dirty is not supported.

There is therefore no reason to exclude the test from being built on
arm64.  Remove the arm64-specific exclusion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260911210611.4001419-1-yeoreum.yun@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Ballance <andrewjballance@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile       |    3 ---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh |    5 +----
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile~kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
@@ -104,10 +104,7 @@ TEST_GEN_FILES += guard-regions
 TEST_GEN_FILES += merge
 TEST_GEN_FILES += rmap
 TEST_GEN_FILES += folio_split_race_test
-
-ifneq ($(ARCH),arm64)
 TEST_GEN_FILES += soft-dirty
-endif
 
 ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
 CAN_BUILD_I386 := $(shell ./../x86/check_cc.sh "$(CC)" ../x86/trivial_32bit_program.c -m32)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh~kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -408,10 +408,7 @@ then
 	CATEGORY="pkey" run_test ./protection_keys_64
 fi
 
-if [ -x ./soft-dirty ]
-then
-	CATEGORY="soft_dirty" run_test ./soft-dirty
-fi
+CATEGORY="soft_dirty" run_test ./soft-dirty
 
 CATEGORY="pagemap" run_test ./pagemap_ioctl
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yeoreum.yun@arm.com are

kselftest-mm-fix-potential-failure-for-merged-vma-in-guard-regions.patch
kselftest-mm-remove-exclusion-of-building-soft-dirty-test-in-arm64.patch