From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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>,
Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Specify requirement for PROC_MEM_ALWAYS_FORCE=y
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:10:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5357ef55-15c0-4c66-867d-898fa7f51414@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17ea54b2-d43f-49a9-9dd4-d2330a8daa92@kernel.org>
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 09:05:11PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 4/16/26 20:40, Mark Brown wrote:
> > 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.
> I guess we could teach most tests to SKIP if /proc/pid/mem is unusable.
That would be nicer, yes. I imagine some of these will predate there
being a configuration option here at all, it's possible there's newer
tests that skip cleanly - I didn't look at the skips.
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-16 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-16 18:40 Mark Brown
2026-04-16 18:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-04-16 19:05 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-16 19:10 ` Mark Brown [this message]
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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