From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] selftests/mm: introduce helper to read every page in range
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 16:48:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260107164842.3289559-6-kevin.brodsky@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260107164842.3289559-1-kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
FORCE_READ(*addr) ensures that the compiler will emit a load from
addr. Several tests need to trigger such a load for every page in
the range [addr, addr + len), ensuring that every page is faulted
in, if it wasn't already.
Introduce a new helper force_read_pages_in_range() that does exactly
that and replace existing loops with a call to it. Some of those
loops have a different step size, but reading from every page is
appropriate in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c | 9 +--------
tools/testing/selftests/mm/pfnmap.c | 16 ++++++----------
.../testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 6 +-----
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h | 6 ++++++
4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c
index 05d9d2805ae4..1f82568ae262 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb-madvise.c
@@ -47,14 +47,7 @@ void write_fault_pages(void *addr, unsigned long nr_pages)
void read_fault_pages(void *addr, unsigned long nr_pages)
{
- unsigned long i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
- unsigned long *addr2 =
- ((unsigned long *)(addr + (i * huge_page_size)));
- /* Prevent the compiler from optimizing out the entire loop: */
- FORCE_READ(*addr2);
- }
+ force_read_pages_in_range(addr, nr_pages * huge_page_size);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pfnmap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pfnmap.c
index f546dfb10cae..35b0e3ed54cd 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pfnmap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/pfnmap.c
@@ -33,20 +33,17 @@ static void signal_handler(int sig)
siglongjmp(sigjmp_buf_env, -EFAULT);
}
-static int test_read_access(char *addr, size_t size, size_t pagesize)
+static int test_read_access(char *addr, size_t size)
{
- size_t offs;
int ret;
if (signal(SIGSEGV, signal_handler) == SIG_ERR)
return -EINVAL;
ret = sigsetjmp(sigjmp_buf_env, 1);
- if (!ret) {
- for (offs = 0; offs < size; offs += pagesize)
- /* Force a read that the compiler cannot optimize out. */
- *((volatile char *)(addr + offs));
- }
+ if (!ret)
+ force_read_pages_in_range(addr, size);
+
if (signal(SIGSEGV, SIG_DFL) == SIG_ERR)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -138,7 +135,7 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(pfnmap)
SKIP(return, "Invalid file: '%s'. Not pfnmap'ed\n", file);
/* ... and want to be able to read from them. */
- if (test_read_access(self->addr1, self->size1, self->pagesize))
+ if (test_read_access(self->addr1, self->size1))
SKIP(return, "Cannot read-access mmap'ed '%s'\n", file);
self->size2 = 0;
@@ -243,8 +240,7 @@ TEST_F(pfnmap, fork)
ASSERT_GE(pid, 0);
if (!pid) {
- EXPECT_EQ(test_read_access(self->addr1, self->size1,
- self->pagesize), 0);
+ EXPECT_EQ(test_read_access(self->addr1, self->size1), 0);
exit(0);
}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 40799f3f0213..65a89ceca4a5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -652,11 +652,7 @@ static int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const char *testfile, size_t fd_size,
}
madvise(*addr, fd_size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
- for (size_t i = 0; i < fd_size; i++) {
- char *addr2 = *addr + i;
-
- FORCE_READ(*addr2);
- }
+ force_read_pages_in_range(*addr, fd_size);
if (!check_huge_file(*addr, fd_size / pmd_pagesize, pmd_pagesize)) {
ksft_print_msg("No large pagecache folio generated, please provide a filesystem supporting large folio\n");
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 6ad32b1830f1..74bdf96161d7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ static inline unsigned int pshift(void)
return __page_shift;
}
+static inline void force_read_pages_in_range(char *addr, size_t len)
+{
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i += psize())
+ FORCE_READ(addr[i]);
+}
+
bool detect_huge_zeropage(void);
/*
--
2.51.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-07 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-07 16:48 [PATCH v2 0/8] Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] selftests/mm: default KDIR to build directory Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] selftests/mm: remove flaky header check Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] selftests/mm: pass down full CC and CFLAGS to check_config.sh Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-07 16:59 ` Mark Brown
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] selftests/mm: fix usage of FORCE_READ() in cow tests Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-08 0:56 ` SeongJae Park
2026-01-08 2:04 ` wang lian
2026-01-08 2:07 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] selftests/mm: fix exit code in pagemap_ioctl wang lian
2026-01-07 16:48 ` Kevin Brodsky [this message]
2026-01-09 1:30 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] selftests/mm: introduce helper to read every page in range SeongJae Park
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] selftests/mm: fix faulting-in code in pagemap_ioctl test Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] selftests/mm: fix exit code in pagemap_ioctl Kevin Brodsky
2026-01-08 1:06 ` SeongJae Park
2026-01-08 2:12 ` wang lian
2026-01-07 16:48 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/mm: report SKIP in pfnmap if a check fails Kevin Brodsky
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