From: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
To: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>,
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>, 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>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] kselftest: mm: remove HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_SHIFT macro
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 10:42:20 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <482deff7-772a-4668-984f-8c4ff51da7c8@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261009-fix_hpage_macro-v5-2-54378ae45add@arm.com>
On 10/9/26 6:57 AM, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_SHIFT macro is written based on the 4KB PAGE_SIZE.
> When this macro is used in some test, test result would be strange in
> the system where PAGE_SIZE is more then 4KB.
>
> Here is the example with transhuge-stress test with 16KB PAGE_SIZE:
>
> transhuge-stress: allocate 61073 transhuge pages, using 122146 MiB virtual memory and 1908 MiB of ram
> 3.292 s/loop, 0.054 ms/page, 37106.002 MiB/s 2566 succeed, 58507 failed, 2566 different pages
> 0.591 s/loop, 0.010 ms/page, 206850.792 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> 0.527 s/loop, 0.009 ms/page, 231895.107 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> 0.527 s/loop, 0.009 ms/page, 231839.704 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> 0.528 s/loop, 0.009 ms/page, 231544.782 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> 0.528 s/loop, 0.009 ms/page, 231462.074 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> 0.527 s/loop, 0.009 ms/page, 231770.300 MiB/s 0 succeed, 61073 failed, 0 different pages
> ...
> ok 1 Completed
>
> Remove the HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_SHIFT macro and introduce pmd_pshift()
> helper to get the HPAGE_SHIFT properly. For HPAGE_SIZE, use pre-existing
> helper, pmd_psize().
>
> Also, run the KSM_MERGE_TIME_HUGE_PAGES test with a size of 512 MiB,
> which is the least common multiple of the PMD sizes for 4 KiB, 16 KiB,
> and 64 KiB base pages. Since allocate_transhuge() allocates mappings in
> PMD-sized units, the test may fail with the previous size of 100 MiB,
> which is not a multiple of the PMD size when the base page size is
> 16 KiB or 64 KiB.
>
> After this patch, output of transhuge-stress:
>
> transhuge-stress: allocate 3817 transhuge pages, using 122146 MiB virtual memory and 119 MiB of ram
> 2.558 s/loop, 0.670 ms/page, 47755.759 MiB/s 2585 succeed, 1232 failed, 2585 different pages
> 2.640 s/loop, 0.692 ms/page, 46268.432 MiB/s 2585 succeed, 1232 failed, 2585 different pages
> 2.635 s/loop, 0.690 ms/page, 46360.298 MiB/s 2585 succeed, 1232 failed, 2585 different pages
> 2.782 s/loop, 0.729 ms/page, 43899.795 MiB/s 2616 succeed, 1201 failed, 2616 different pages
> 2.692 s/loop, 0.705 ms/page, 45380.876 MiB/s 2627 succeed, 1190 failed, 2627 different pages
> 2.612 s/loop, 0.684 ms/page, 46765.812 MiB/s 2628 succeed, 1189 failed, 2628 different pages
> 2.683 s/loop, 0.703 ms/page, 45520.990 MiB/s 2630 succeed, 1187 failed, 2630 different pages
> 2.727 s/loop, 0.714 ms/page, 44789.321 MiB/s 2631 succeed, 1186 failed, 2631 different pages
> ...
> ok 1 Completed
>
> Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
> ---
LGTM, so:
Reviewed-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-09 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-09 1:27 [PATCH v5 0/3] " Yeoreum Yun
2026-10-09 1:27 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] kselftest: mm: rename read_pmd_pagesize() to pmd_psize() Yeoreum Yun
2026-10-09 5:11 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-10-09 17:02 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-09 1:27 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] kselftest: mm: remove HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_SHIFT macro Yeoreum Yun
2026-10-09 5:12 ` Sarthak Sharma [this message]
2026-10-09 14:23 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-10-09 17:08 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-09 1:27 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] kselftest: mm: introduce size_to_shift() helper Yeoreum Yun
2026-10-09 1:29 ` Zi Yan
2026-10-09 5:13 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-10-09 17:09 ` Mike Rapoport
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