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selftests: khugepaged: fix the shmem collapse failure
authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:49:19 +0000 (09:49 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:42:09 +0000 (22:42 -0700)
When running the khugepaged selftest for shmem (./khugepaged all:shmem), I
encountered the following test failures:

: Run test: collapse_full (khugepaged:shmem)
: Collapse multiple fully populated PTE table.... Fail
: ...
: Run test: collapse_single_pte_entry (khugepaged:shmem)
: Collapse PTE table with single PTE entry present.... Fail
: ...
: Run test: collapse_full_of_compound (khugepaged:shmem)
: Allocate huge page... OK
: Split huge page leaving single PTE page table full of compound pages... OK
: Collapse PTE table full of compound pages.... Fail

The reason for the failure is that it will set MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to prevent
khugepaged from continuing to scan shmem VMA after khugepaged finishes
scanning in the wait_for_scan() function.  Moreover, shmem requires a
refault to establish PMD mappings.

However, after commit 2b0f922323cc ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when
THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma"), PMD mappings are prevented if
the VMA is set with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag, so shmem cannot establish PMD
mappings during refault.

One way to fix this issue is to move the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting after the
shmem refault.  After shmem refault and check huge, the test case will
unmap the shmem immediately.  So it seems unnecessary to set the
MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.

Then we can simply drop the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting, and all khugepaged
test cases passed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d8502fc50d0304c2afd27ced062b1d636b7a872e.1749779183.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 2b0f922323cc ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c

index 8a4d34cce36b2aff12392b2356f597a2668f9d1d..4341ce6b3b382bae1d4b02002ecf6e256398ca3e 100644 (file)
@@ -561,8 +561,6 @@ static bool wait_for_scan(const char *msg, char *p, int nr_hpages,
                usleep(TICK);
        }
 
-       madvise(p, nr_hpages * hpage_pmd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
-
        return timeout == -1;
 }