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From: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,  Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
	Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
	 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	 Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	 Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
	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>,
	 Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:24:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260826-fix_split-v2-2-71153c7f579a@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260826-fix_split-v2-0-71153c7f579a@arm.com>

Since glibc commit 321e1fc73f (“malloc: Enable 2MB THP by default on AArch64”),
glibc may call madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) for sufficiently large allocations
made by memalign().

The underlying VMA may start at a different address from the aligned
address returned by memalign(). Furthermore, a subsequent
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call does not split the VMA because the flag is
already set.

This causes split_huge_page_test to fail because the check_huge_xxx()
helpers incorrectly require the address returned by memalign() to
match the VMA start address reported in /proc/self/smaps.

Fix this by using /proc/self/pagemap and /proc/kpageflags instead of
/proc/self/smaps to detect huge pages.

Reported-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h |   1 +
 2 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 4821a3563036..1d0959b3b9e8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -351,31 +351,13 @@ char *__get_smap_entry(void *addr, const char *pattern, char *buf, size_t len)
 	return entry;
 }
 
-static bool __check_pmd_huge(void *addr, char *pattern, int nr_hpages,
-		  uint64_t hpage_size)
-{
-	char buffer[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];
-	uint64_t thp = -1;
-	char *entry;
-
-	entry = __get_smap_entry(addr, pattern, buffer, sizeof(buffer));
-	if (!entry)
-		goto err_out;
-
-	if (sscanf(entry, "%9" SCNu64 " kB", &thp) != 1)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Reading smap error\n");
-
-err_out:
-	return thp == (nr_hpages * (hpage_size >> 10));
-}
-
-static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
-		uint64_t hpage_size)
+static bool check_large_folios(int pagemap_fd, int kpageflags_fd,
+			       void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
+			       uint64_t hpage_size)
 {
 	int order = 0, pagesize = getpagesize();
 	unsigned int nr_pages = hpage_size / pagesize;
 	int orders[MAX_NR_ORDERS], status;
-	int pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd;
 	bool ret = false;
 
 	if (!nr_pages)
@@ -386,15 +368,6 @@ static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("invalid order\n");
 
 	memset(orders, 0, sizeof(int) * MAX_NR_ORDERS);
-	pagemap_fd = open(PAGEMAP_PATH, O_RDONLY);
-	if (pagemap_fd == -1)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("read pagemap fail\n");
-
-	kpageflags_fd = open(KPAGEFLAGS_PATH, O_RDONLY);
-	if (kpageflags_fd == -1) {
-		close(pagemap_fd);
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("read kpageflags fail\n");
-	}
 
 	status = gather_folio_orders(addr, len, pagemap_fd,
 			kpageflags_fd, orders, MAX_NR_ORDERS);
@@ -405,48 +378,97 @@ static bool check_large_folios(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
 		ret = true;
 
 out:
-	close(pagemap_fd);
-	close(kpageflags_fd);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-bool check_huge_anon(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+enum check_huge_type {
+	CHECK_HUGE_ANON,
+	CHECK_HUGE_FILE,
+	CHECK_HUGE_SHMEM,
+};
+
+static bool __check_pmd_huge(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages,
+			     uint64_t hpage_size, enum check_huge_type type)
 {
-	uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
+	int pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd;
+	uint64_t pmd_pagesize, granule;
+	uint64_t categories, kpf;
+	unsigned long pfn;
+	bool check_large, huge_mapped;
+	char *start = addr;
+	char *end = start + len;
 
+	pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
 	if (!pmd_pagesize)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
 
-	if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
-		return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "AnonHugePages: ", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+	if (nr_hpages > 0) {
+		check_large = true;
+		granule = hpage_size;
+	} else {
+		check_large = false;
+		granule = psize();
+	}
 
-	return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
-}
+	pagemap_fd = open(PAGEMAP_PATH, O_RDONLY);
+	if (pagemap_fd < 0)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("open pagemap fail\n");
 
-bool check_huge_file(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
-{
-	uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
+	kpageflags_fd = open(KPAGEFLAGS_PATH, O_RDONLY);
+	if (kpageflags_fd < 0) {
+		close(pagemap_fd);
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("open kpageflags fail\n");
+	}
 
-	if (!pmd_pagesize)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
+	if (check_large && !check_large_folios(pagemap_fd, kpageflags_fd,
+					       addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size))
+		goto out;
 
-	if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
-		return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "FilePmdMapped:", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+	for (; start < end; start += granule) {
+		categories = pagemap_scan_get_categories(pagemap_fd, start);
+		pfn = pagemap_get_pfn(pagemap_fd, start);
+		if (pfn == -1UL) {
+			if (check_large)
+				goto out;
+			else
+				continue;
+		}
+		if (pageflags_get(pfn, kpageflags_fd, &kpf))
+			ksft_exit_fail_msg("read kpageflags: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+		huge_mapped = categories & PAGE_IS_HUGE;
+		if (check_large != huge_mapped) {
+			if (!check_large || granule == pmd_pagesize)
+				goto out;
+		}
+		if (kpf & KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL)
+			continue;
+		if (!!(categories & PAGE_IS_FILE) != (type != CHECK_HUGE_ANON))
+			goto out;
+		if (type == CHECK_HUGE_ANON)
+			continue;
+		if (!!(kpf & KPF_SWAPBACKED) != (type != CHECK_HUGE_FILE))
+			goto out;
+	}
 
-	return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+out:
+	close(pagemap_fd);
+	close(kpageflags_fd);
+	return start >= end;
 }
 
-bool check_huge_shmem(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+bool check_huge_anon(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
 {
-	uint64_t pmd_pagesize = read_pmd_pagesize();
-
-	if (!pmd_pagesize)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("reading PMD pagesize failed\n");
+	return __check_pmd_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_ANON);
+}
 
-	if (hpage_size == pmd_pagesize)
-		return __check_pmd_huge(addr, "ShmemPmdMapped:", nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+bool check_huge_file(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+{
+	return __check_pmd_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_FILE);
+}
 
-	return check_large_folios(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size);
+bool check_huge_shmem(void *addr, size_t len, int nr_hpages, uint64_t hpage_size)
+{
+	return __check_pmd_huge(addr, len, nr_hpages, hpage_size, CHECK_HUGE_SHMEM);
 }
 
 int64_t allocate_transhuge(void *ptr, int pagemap_fd)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 9a49af88702e..f19bd17817e5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #define PM_SWAP                       BIT_ULL(62)
 #define PM_PRESENT                    BIT_ULL(63)
 
+#define KPF_SWAPBACKED                BIT_ULL(14)
 #define KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD             BIT_ULL(15)
 #define KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL             BIT_ULL(16)
 #define KPF_HWPOISON                  BIT_ULL(19)

-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-26 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-26 12:24 [PATCH v2 0/2] kselftest: mm: fix some failure of split_huge_page_test Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-26 12:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] kselftest: mm: prevent random failure of huge page split for khugepaged Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-27 10:59   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-27 11:11     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-26 12:24 ` Yeoreum Yun [this message]
2026-08-27  8:28   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] kselftest: mm: replace usage of /proc/self/smaps for check_huge_xxx() helper Baolin Wang
2026-08-27  9:11     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-27 10:44     ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-27 15:03       ` Zi Yan
2026-08-27 16:54         ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-28  1:00           ` Baolin Wang
2026-08-28  7:44             ` Yeoreum Yun
2026-08-27 10:56     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-27 11:07       ` Yeoreum Yun

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