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IIUC, it only runs "./khugepaged" which tests anon only ... >> >> Should we add it there? Then I would probably have noticed that myself >> earlier :) > > Yes, see patch 2. Yes, was pleasantly surprised when I found that :) > >>> I encountered the following test failures: >>> " >>> Run test: collapse_full (khugepaged:shmem) >>> Collapse multiple fully populated PTE table.... Fail >>> ... >>> Run test: collapse_single_pte_entry (khugepaged:shmem) >>> Collapse PTE table with single PTE entry present.... Fail >>> ... >>> Run test: collapse_full_of_compound (khugepaged:shmem) >>> Allocate huge page... OK >>> Split huge page leaving single PTE page table full of compound >>> pages... OK >>> Collapse PTE table full of compound pages.... Fail >>> " >>> >>> The reason for the failure is that, it will set MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to >>> prevent >>> khugepaged from continuing to scan shmem VMA after khugepaged finishes >>> scanning in the wait_for_scan() function. Moreover, shmem requires a >>> refault >>> to establish PMD mappings. >>> >>> However, after commit 2b0f922323cc, PMD mappings are prevented if the >>> VMA is >>> set with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag, so shmem cannot establish PMD mappings >>> during >>> refault. >> >> Right. It's always problematic when we have some contradicting >> information in the VMA vs. pagecache. >> >>> >>> To fix this issue, we can set the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag after the shmem >>> refault. >>> With this fix, the shmem test case passes. >>> >>> Fixes: 2b0f922323cc ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are >>> disabled by the hw/process/vma") >>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang >>> --- >>>   tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 3 +-- >>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c >>> b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c >>> index 8a4d34cce36b..d462f62d8116 100644 >>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c >>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c >>> @@ -561,8 +561,6 @@ static bool wait_for_scan(const char *msg, char >>> *p, int nr_hpages, >>>           usleep(TICK); >>>       } >>> -    madvise(p, nr_hpages * hpage_pmd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE); >>> - >>>       return timeout == -1; >>>   } >>> @@ -585,6 +583,7 @@ static void khugepaged_collapse(const char *msg, >>> char *p, int nr_hpages, >>>       if (ops != &__anon_ops) >>>           ops->fault(p, 0, nr_hpages * hpage_pmd_size); >>> +    madvise(p, nr_hpages * hpage_pmd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE); >>>       if (ops->check_huge(p, expect ? nr_hpages : 0)) >>>           success("OK"); >>>       else >> >> It's a shame we have this weird interface: there is no way we can clear >> VM_HUGEPAGE without setting VM_NOHUGEPAGE :( > > Right. > >> But, do we even care about setting MADV_NOHUGEPAGE at all? IIUC, we'll >> almost immediately later call cleanup_area() where we munmap(), right? > > I tested removing the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting, and the khugepaged test > cases all passed. > > However, a potential impact of removing MADV_NOHUGEPAGE is that, > khugepaged might report 'timeout', but check_huge() would still report > 'success' (assuming khugepaged tries to scan the VMA and successfully > collapses it after the timeout). Such test result could be confusing. If we run into the timeout, we return "true" from wait_for_scan(), and in khugepaged_collapse() returns immediately. So we wouldn't issue another check_huge() call in khugepaged_collapse(). Did I miss something? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb