From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Specify requirement for PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE=y
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:40:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260416-selftests-mm-proc-mem-always-force-v1-1-3f5865153c67@kernel.org> (raw)
Several of the mm selftests made use of /proc/pid/mem as part of their
operation but we do not specify this in the config fragment for them, at
least mkdirty and ksm_functional_tests have this requirement.
This has been working fine in practice since PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE was the
default setting but commit 599bbba5a36f ("proc: make PROC_MEM_FORCE_PTRACE
the Kconfig default") that is no longer the case, meaning that tests run
on kernels built based on defconfigs have started having the new more
restrictive default and failing. Add PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE to the config
fragment for the mm selftests.
Thanks to Aishwarya TCV for spotting the issue and identifying the commit
that introduced it.
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/config | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/config b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/config
index 1dbe2b4558ab..06f78bd232e2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/config
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/config
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_UPROBES=y
CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE=y
CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT=m
+CONFIG_PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE=y
---
base-commit: 599bbba5a36f6de57ab14c373c25881e2b5273f5
change-id: 20260416-selftests-mm-proc-mem-always-force-5ce1b26022c2
Best regards,
--
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-16 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-16 18:40 Mark Brown [this message]
2026-04-16 18:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-16 19:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-16 19:10 ` Mark Brown
2026-04-16 19:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-17 2:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-04-17 4:36 ` Dev Jain
2026-04-17 11:24 ` Mark Brown
2026-04-17 2:57 ` Anshuman Khandual
2026-04-17 4:37 ` Dev Jain
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