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* [PATCH 1/2] selftests/mm: restore number of hugepages
@ 2023-11-03 17:33 Breno Leitao
  2023-11-03 17:34 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/mm: Add hugetlb_fault_after_madv to .gitignore Breno Leitao
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Breno Leitao @ 2023-11-03 17:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ryan.roberts, akpm, linux-kselftest; +Cc: linux-mm

The test mm `hugetlb_fault_after_madv` selftest needs one and only one
huge page to run, thus it sets `/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages` to 1.

The problem is that further tests require the previous number of
hugepages allocated in order to succeed.

Save the number of huge pages before changing it, and restore it once the
test finishes, so, further tests could run successfully.

Fixes: 116d57303a05 ("selftests/mm: add a new test for madv and hugetlb")
Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/662df57e-47f1-4c15-9b84-f2f2d587fc5c@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index cc16f6ca8533..00757445278e 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -223,9 +223,12 @@ CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugepage-mremap
 CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugepage-vmemmap
 CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugetlb-madvise
 
+nr_hugepages_tmp=$(cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages)
 # For this test, we need one and just one huge page
 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugetlb_fault_after_madv
+# Restore the previous number of huge pages, since further tests rely on it
+echo "$nr_hugepages_tmp" > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
 
 if test_selected "hugetlb"; then
 	echo "NOTE: These hugetlb tests provide minimal coverage.  Use"
-- 
2.34.1



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