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From: Itamar-Dalal <dalalitamar@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
	lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, riel@surriel.com,
	Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, vbabka@suse.cz, harry.yoo@oracle.com,
	jannh@google.com, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
	mhocko@suse.com, shuah@kernel.org,
	Itamar-Dalal <dalalitamar@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Add a new test 'migrate.cow_after_fork' that verifies correct RMAP handling of Copy-On-Write pages after fork(). Before a write, parent and child share the same PFN; after a write, the child’s PFN differs, confirming proper COW duplication.
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:49:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251014194944.20341-1-dalalitamar@gmail.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Itamar-Dalal <dalalitamar@gmail.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/rmap.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/rmap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/rmap.c
index 13f7bccfd0a9..2ba3361fecf0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/rmap.c
@@ -430,4 +430,47 @@ TEST_F(migrate, ksm)
 	propagate_children(_metadata, data);
 }
 
-TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
+TEST_F(migrate, cow_after_fork)
+{
+	struct global_data *data = &self->data;
+	int status;
+	pid_t pid;
+	unsigned long parent_pfn, child_pfn;
+	int pagemap_fd;
+	char *region;
+
+	/* Map private anonymous memory and fault it in */
+	region = mmap(NULL, data->mapsize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+		MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+	ASSERT_NE(region, MAP_FAILED);
+	memset(region, 0xaa, data->mapsize);
+
+	pagemap_fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
+	ASSERT_NE(pagemap_fd, -1);
+	parent_pfn = pagemap_get_pfn(pagemap_fd, region);
+	close(pagemap_fd);
+
+	pid = fork();
+	ASSERT_NE(pid, -1);
+
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		/* Child: write to trigger COW */
+		region[0] = 0xbb;
+
+		pagemap_fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
+		ASSERT_NE(pagemap_fd, -1);
+		child_pfn = pagemap_get_pfn(pagemap_fd, region);
+		close(pagemap_fd);
+
+		/* Expect PFN to differ after write (COW happened) */
+		if (child_pfn == parent_pfn)
+			_exit(FAIL_ON_CHECK);
+		_exit(0);
+	}
+
+	waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(status), 0);
+	munmap(region, data->mapsize);
+}
+
+TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.34.1



             reply	other threads:[~2025-10-14 19:50 UTC|newest]

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2025-10-14 19:49 Itamar-Dalal [this message]
2025-10-14 21:29 ` Andrew Morton

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