Some systems (e.g. minimal or real-time kernels) may not enable
Transparent Hugepages (THP), causing MADV_HUGEPAGE to return EINVAL. This
patch introduces a runtime check using the existing THP sysfs interface
and skips the hugepage merging test (`-H`) when THP is not available.
To avoid those failures:
# -----------------------------
# running ./ksm_tests -H -s 100
# -----------------------------
# ksm_tests: MADV_HUGEPAGE: Invalid argument
# [FAIL]
not ok 1 ksm_tests -H -s 100 # exit=2
# --------------------
# running ./khugepaged
# --------------------
# Reading PMD pagesize failed# [FAIL]
not ok 1 khugepaged # exit=1
# --------------------
# running ./soft-dirty
# --------------------
# TAP version 13
# 1..15
# ok 1 Test test_simple
# ok 2 Test test_vma_reuse dirty bit of allocated page
# ok 3 Test test_vma_reuse dirty bit of reused address page
# Bail out! Reading PMD pagesize failed# Planned tests != run tests (15 != 3)
# # Totals: pass:3 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
# [FAIL]
not ok 1 soft-dirty # exit=1
# SUMMARY: PASS=0 SKIP=0 FAIL=1
# -------------------
# running ./migration
# -------------------
# TAP version 13
# 1..3
# # Starting 3 tests from 1 test cases.
# # RUN migration.private_anon ...
# # OK migration.private_anon
# ok 1 migration.private_anon
# # RUN migration.shared_anon ...
# # OK migration.shared_anon
# ok 2 migration.shared_anon
# # RUN migration.private_anon_thp ...
# # migration.c:196:private_anon_thp:Expected madvise(ptr, TWOMEG, MADV_HUGEPAGE) (-1) == 0 (0)
# # private_anon_thp: Test terminated by assertion
# # FAIL migration.private_anon_thp
# not ok 3 migration.private_anon_thp
# # FAILED: 2 / 3 tests passed.
# # Totals: pass:2 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
# [FAIL]
not ok 1 migration # exit=1
It's true that CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y is explicitly enabled in
tools/testing/selftests/mm/config, so ideally the runtime environment
should also support THP.
However, in practice, we've found that on some systems:
- THP is disabled at boot time (transparent_hugepage=never)
- Or manually disabled via sysfs
- Or unavailable in RT kernels, containers, or minimal CI environments
In these cases, the test will fail with EINVAL on madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE),
even though the kernel config is correct.
To make the test suite more robust and avoid false negatives, this patch
adds a runtime check for /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.
If THP is not available, the hugepage test (-H) is skipped with a clear
message.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250624032748.393836-1-liwang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Keith Lucas <keith.lucas@oracle.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Added three new test cases to the migration tests:
1. Shared anon THP migration test
This test will mmap shared anon memory, madvise it to
MADV_HUGEPAGE, then do migration entry testing. One thread
will move pages back and forth between nodes whilst other
threads try and access them.
2. Private anon hugetlb migration test
This test will mmap private anon hugetlb memory and then
do the migration entry testing.
3. Shared anon hugetlb migration test
This test will mmap shared anon hugetlb memory and then
do the migration entry testing.
Test results
============
# ./tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration
TAP version 13
1..6
# Starting 6 tests from 1 test cases.
# RUN migration.private_anon ...
# OK migration.private_anon
ok 1 migration.private_anon
# RUN migration.shared_anon ...
# OK migration.shared_anon
ok 2 migration.shared_anon
# RUN migration.private_anon_thp ...
# OK migration.private_anon_thp
ok 3 migration.private_anon_thp
# RUN migration.shared_anon_thp ...
# OK migration.shared_anon_thp
ok 4 migration.shared_anon_thp
# RUN migration.private_anon_htlb ...
# OK migration.private_anon_htlb
ok 5 migration.private_anon_htlb
# RUN migration.shared_anon_htlb ...
# OK migration.shared_anon_htlb
ok 6 migration.shared_anon_htlb
# PASSED: 6 / 6 tests passed.
# Totals: pass:6 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
#
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241219102720.4487-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The `migration` test currently has a number of robustness problems that
cause it to hang and leak resources.
Timeout: There are 3 tests, which each previously ran for 60 seconds.
However, the timeout in mm/settings for a single test binary was set to 45
seconds. So when run using run_kselftest.sh, the top level timeout would
trigger before the test binary was finished. Solve this by meeting in the
middle; each of the 3 tests now runs for 20 seconds (for a total of 60),
and the top level timeout is set to 90 seconds.
Leaking child processes: the `shared_anon` test fork()s some children but
then an ASSERT() fires before the test kills those children. The assert
causes immediate exit of the parent and leaking of the children.
Furthermore, if run using the run_kselftest.sh wrapper, the wrapper would
get stuck waiting for those children to exit, which never happens. Solve
this by setting the "parent death signal" to SIGHUP in the child, so that
the child is killed automatically if the parent dies.
With these changes, the test binary now runs to completion on arm64, with
2 tests passing and the `shared_anon` test failing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724082522.1202616-7-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
