[PATCH] selftests/mm: khugepaged: skip swap tests when swap is unavailable

From: Jaeyeon Lee

Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 09:41:24 EST


The collapse_swapin_single_pte and collapse_max_ptes_swap tests use
MADV_PAGEOUT to swap out pages before verifying khugepaged collapse
behavior. On systems without swap configured, MADV_PAGEOUT succeeds
but the pages are not actually swapped out, so check_swap() returns
false and the tests report a failure.

These tests cannot run meaningfully without swap, so a missing swap
area is an environment limitation rather than a test failure. Detect
the absence of swap via /proc/swaps and skip the affected tests
instead of failing them.

Signed-off-by: Jaeyeon Lee <jaeyeon.lee.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 10e8dedcb087..f9b4ebe733ce 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -100,6 +100,22 @@ static void skip(const char *msg)
exit_status = KSFT_SKIP;
}

+static bool swap_available(void)
+{
+ char buf[256];
+ bool ret;
+ FILE *fp = fopen("/proc/swaps", "r");
+
+ if (!fp)
+ return false;
+
+ fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp);
+ ret = !!fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp);
+
+ fclose(fp);
+ return ret;
+}
+
static void save_settings(void)
{
ksft_print_msg("Save THP and khugepaged settings...");
@@ -742,6 +758,9 @@ static void collapse_swapin_single_pte(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_op
ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
if (check_swap(p, page_size)) {
success("OK");
+ } else if (!swap_available()) {
+ skip("Swap is not available");
+ goto out;
} else {
fail("Fail");
goto out;
@@ -768,6 +787,9 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_swap(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *o
ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
if (check_swap(p, (max_ptes_swap + 1) * page_size)) {
success("OK");
+ } else if (!swap_available()) {
+ skip("Swap is not available");
+ goto out;
} else {
fail("Fail");
goto out;
@@ -785,6 +807,9 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_swap(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *o
ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
if (check_swap(p, max_ptes_swap * page_size)) {
success("OK");
+ } else if (!swap_available()) {
+ skip("Swap is not available");
+ goto out;
} else {
fail("Fail");
goto out;

base-commit: 7081238c5ca29839924f13bf5daa80763bc589f2
--
2.43.0