From: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
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>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] selftests/mm: detect masked PFNs in allocate_transhuge()
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 14:32:48 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261112090250.334344-3-sarthak.sharma@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261112090250.334344-1-sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
allocate_transhuge() uses pagemap PFNs to determine whether a THP
was allocated. But pagemap PFN returns zero PFNs when the caller
is not allowed to read them (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). Currently
this looks like a normal THP allocation failure.
When both pagemap entries are present but their PFNs are zero,
return -EACCES since the THP size and alignment cannot be verified.
In case of a base page fallback, the second entry won't be present
and thus it will still return -1 indicating a THP allocation failure.
Update ksm_tests.c to skip the test when pagemap PFNs are
unavailable. While here, use a common cleanup path and
add the missing close(pagemap_fd).
Signed-off-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c
index 9e6e1633d0b5..9f97ce28e72a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdint.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include <err.h>
#include "kselftest.h"
@@ -521,6 +522,8 @@ static int ksm_merge_hugepages_time(int merge_type, int mapping, int prot,
unsigned long scan_time_ns;
int pagemap_fd, n_normal_pages, n_huge_pages;
const uint64_t hpage_size = pmd_psize();
+ int status = KSFT_FAIL;
+ int64_t pfn;
if (!thp_is_enabled()) {
ksft_print_msg("Transparent Hugepages not available\n");
@@ -551,7 +554,13 @@ static int ksm_merge_hugepages_time(int merge_type, int mapping, int prot,
n_normal_pages = 0;
n_huge_pages = 0;
for (void *p = map_ptr; p < map_ptr + len; p += hpage_size) {
- if (allocate_transhuge(p, pagemap_fd) < 0)
+ pfn = allocate_transhuge(p, pagemap_fd);
+ if (pfn == -EACCES) {
+ ksft_print_msg("Pagemap PFNs are unavailable\n");
+ status = KSFT_SKIP;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ if (pfn < 0)
n_normal_pages++;
else
n_huge_pages++;
@@ -563,13 +572,13 @@ static int ksm_merge_hugepages_time(int merge_type, int mapping, int prot,
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, &start_time)) {
ksft_perror("clock_gettime");
- goto err_out;
+ goto out;
}
if (ksm_merge_pages(merge_type, map_ptr, map_size, start_time, timeout))
- goto err_out;
+ goto out;
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, &end_time)) {
ksft_perror("clock_gettime");
- goto err_out;
+ goto out;
}
scan_time_ns = (end_time.tv_sec - start_time.tv_sec) * NSEC_PER_SEC +
@@ -581,12 +590,11 @@ static int ksm_merge_hugepages_time(int merge_type, int mapping, int prot,
ksft_print_msg("Average speed: %.3f MiB/s\n", (map_size / MB) /
((double)scan_time_ns / NSEC_PER_SEC));
+ status = KSFT_PASS;
+out:
+ close(pagemap_fd);
munmap(map_ptr_orig, len + hpage_size);
- return KSFT_PASS;
-
-err_out:
- munmap(map_ptr_orig, len + hpage_size);
- return KSFT_FAIL;
+ return status;
}
static int ksm_merge_time(int merge_type, int mapping, int prot, int timeout, size_t map_size)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 8ef226107d78..9942bbea7837 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -534,6 +534,15 @@ int64_t allocate_transhuge(void *ptr, int pagemap_fd)
(uintptr_t)ptr >> (pshift() - 3)) != sizeof(ent))
ksft_exit_fail_msg("read pagemap\n");
+ /*
+ * Both entries present means that a THP has been allocated. But if
+ * their PFNs are masked, we cannot verify the size and alignment of
+ * the THP
+ */
+ if (PAGEMAP_PRESENT(ent[0]) && PAGEMAP_PRESENT(ent[1]) &&
+ !PAGEMAP_PFN(ent[0]) && !PAGEMAP_PFN(ent[1]))
+ return -EACCES;
+
if (PAGEMAP_PRESENT(ent[0]) && PAGEMAP_PRESENT(ent[1]) &&
PAGEMAP_PFN(ent[0]) + 1 == PAGEMAP_PFN(ent[1]) &&
!(PAGEMAP_PFN(ent[0]) & ((1 << (hpage_shift - pshift())) - 1)))
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-12 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-12 9:02 [PATCH 0/4] selftests/mm: replace transhuge-stress with a THP compaction selftest Sarthak Sharma
2026-11-12 9:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] selftests/mm: remove transhuge-stress Sarthak Sharma
2026-11-12 9:02 ` Sarthak Sharma [this message]
2026-11-12 9:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] selftests/mm: factor out THP split helpers Sarthak Sharma
2026-11-12 9:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] selftests/mm: add a THP compaction selftest Sarthak Sharma
2026-11-14 12:43 ` [PATCH 0/4] selftests/mm: replace transhuge-stress with " Dev Jain
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