Re: [PATCH] lib: kunit_iov_iter: repeatedly call alloc_pages_bulk()

[Christian A. Ehrhardt]

Hi Thomas,

On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 03:02:45PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> alloc_pages_bulk() is not guaranteed to return all requested pages
> in a single call.
> 
> Call it repeatedly until all pages have been allocated or no more
> progress is being made.
> 
> Fixes: 0913b7554726 ("lib: kunit_iov_iter: add tests for extract_iter_to_sg")

Diff LGTM but the "Fixes:" tag should probably point to this commit instead:
2d71340ff1d4 iov_iter: Kunit tests for copying to/from an iterator


> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
> index f02f7b7aa796..1e6fce9cb255 100644
> --- a/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
> +++ b/lib/tests/kunit_iov_iter.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
>  					    size_t npages)
>  {
>  	struct page **pages;
> -	unsigned long got;
> +	unsigned long got, last;
>  	void *buffer;
>  	unsigned int i;
>  
> @@ -61,7 +61,15 @@ static void *__init iov_kunit_create_buffer(struct kunit *test,
>  	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, pages);
>  	*ppages = pages;
>  
> -	got = alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, npages, pages);
> +	got = 0;
> +	while (true) {
> +		last = got;
> +		got = alloc_pages_bulk(GFP_KERNEL, npages, pages);
> +
> +		if (last == got || got == npages)
> +			break;
> +	}
> +
>  	if (got != npages) {
>  		release_pages(pages, got);
>  		kvfree(pages);
> 

Best regards,
Christian