Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests: khugepaged: fix the shmem collapse failure

[Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>]

On 13/06/25 7:19 am, Baolin Wang wrote:
> When running the khugepaged selftest for shmem (./khugepaged all:shmem),
> 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 ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when
> THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma"), PMD mappings are prevented if the
> VMA is set with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag, so shmem cannot establish PMD mappings
> during refault.
>
> One way to fix this issue is to move the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting after the
> shmem refault. After shmem refault and check huge, the test case will unmap
> the shmem immediately. So it seems unnecessary to set the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.
>
> Then we can simply drop the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting, and all khugepaged test
> cases passed.
>
> Fixes: 2b0f922323cc ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma")
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---

The test converts from fail to pass for me, for the aforementioned failures.

Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>

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