[PATCH] selftests: mm: stop relying on killall in charge_reserved_hugetlb

From: CaoRuichuang

Date: Sun Apr 05 2026 - 17:32:30 EST


charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh tears down background writers with
killall -2 --wait write_to_hugetlbfs. That depends on killall from
psmisc, which is not installed on minimal Ubuntu images, so the test
fails in cleanup with "killall: command not found".

Track the writer PIDs we start ourselves and signal them directly
during cleanup instead. Make write_hugetlb_memory.sh exec
write_to_hugetlbfs so the recorded PID names the long-lived test
process, and redirect async output straight to the temporary log file
instead of going through a tee pipeline.

Signed-off-by: CaoRuichuang <create0818@xxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh | 25 +++++++++++++++----
.../selftests/mm/write_hugetlb_memory.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh
index 447769657..757df4878 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ else
fi
export cgroup_path

+write_pids=()
+
function cleanup() {
if [[ $cgroup2 ]]; then
echo $$ >$cgroup_path/cgroup.procs
@@ -193,10 +195,12 @@ function write_hugetlbfs_and_get_usage() {
[[ "$private" == "-r" ]] && [[ "$expect_failure" != 1 ]]; then

bash write_hugetlb_memory.sh "$size" "$populate" "$write" \
- "$cgroup" "$path" "$method" "$private" "-l" "$reserve" 2>&1 | tee $output &
+ "$cgroup" "$path" "$method" "$private" "-l" "$reserve" \
+ >"$output" 2>&1 &

local write_result=$?
local write_pid=$!
+ write_pids+=("$write_pid")

until grep -q -i "DONE" $output; do
echo waiting for DONE signal.
@@ -261,10 +265,21 @@ function write_hugetlbfs_and_get_usage() {
function cleanup_hugetlb_memory() {
set +e
local cgroup="$1"
- if [[ "$(pgrep -f write_to_hugetlbfs)" != "" ]]; then
- echo killing write_to_hugetlbfs
- killall -2 --wait write_to_hugetlbfs
- wait_for_hugetlb_memory_to_get_depleted $cgroup
+ local write_pid
+
+ if (( ${#write_pids[@]} )); then
+ for write_pid in "${write_pids[@]}"; do
+ if kill -0 "$write_pid" 2>/dev/null; then
+ echo killing write_to_hugetlbfs pid "$write_pid"
+ kill -2 "$write_pid"
+ wait "$write_pid"
+ fi
+ done
+ write_pids=()
+
+ if [[ -n "$cgroup" ]]; then
+ wait_for_hugetlb_memory_to_get_depleted "$cgroup"
+ fi
fi
set -e

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/write_hugetlb_memory.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/write_hugetlb_memory.sh
index 3d2d2eb9d..49164bbfc 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/write_hugetlb_memory.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/write_hugetlb_memory.sh
@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@ echo $$ > ${cgroup_path:-/dev/cgroup/memory}/"$cgroup"/cgroup.procs
echo "Method is $method"

set +e
-./write_to_hugetlbfs -p "$path" -s "$size" "$write" "$populate" -m "$method" \
+exec ./write_to_hugetlbfs -p "$path" -s "$size" "$write" "$populate" -m "$method" \
"$private" "$want_sleep" "$reserve"
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)