[PATCH 16/16] selftests/mm: skip khugepaged shmem cases without a PMD page cache folio
From: Kiryl Shutsemau
Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 16:06:14 EST
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
The page cache caps folio order at MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER, and
xas_split_alloc() puts that cap below the PMD order where a PMD is 512M --
arm64 with 64K base pages, as include/linux/pagemap.h says outright.
shmem_huge_global_enabled() then offers no PMD order at all, so
MADV_COLLAPSE of a shmem range answers -EINVAL and khugepaged passes over
it.
The shmem cases nonetheless ask for a PMD-sized shmem folio, so on such a
configuration four of them fail and the run bails out in the middle:
not ok 2 collapse_full not ok 4 collapse_single_pte_entry # Allocate huge
page...Bail out! madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE): Invalid argument (22)
That is the kernel declining something it deliberately does not support,
not a collapse defect. Skip those cases where the PMD order is not a shmem
order, which thp_shmem_supported_orders() already reports -- it reads the
same per-size shmem_enabled controls the kernel only publishes for orders
the page cache can hold. A tmpfs-backed file argument is skipped on the
same grounds, and a run left with nothing to collapse into skips outright.
Anonymous collapse is unaffected: its orders are not capped this way, and
the anonymous cases pass at a 512M PMD.
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 9213ce1658d0..c5a3c3922581 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1584,6 +1584,27 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
hpage_pmd_nr = hpage_pmd_size / page_size;
hpage_pmd_order = __builtin_ctz(hpage_pmd_nr);
+ /*
+ * The page cache caps folio order at MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER, which
+ * xas_split_alloc() puts below the PMD order on arm64 with 64K pages.
+ * A PMD-sized page cache folio is then impossible, so the kernel
+ * refuses these collapses by design and there is nothing to test.
+ */
+ if (!(thp_shmem_supported_orders() & (1UL << hpage_pmd_order))) {
+ if (shmem_ops) {
+ ksft_print_msg("no PMD-order page cache folio: skipping shmem\n");
+ shmem_ops = NULL;
+ }
+ if (finfo.type == VMA_SHMEM && read_only_file_ops) {
+ ksft_print_msg("no PMD-order page cache folio: skipping tmpfs file\n");
+ read_only_file_ops = NULL;
+ read_write_file_read_ops = NULL;
+ read_write_file_write_ops = NULL;
+ }
+ if (!anon_ops && !shmem_ops && !read_only_file_ops)
+ ksft_exit_skip("Nothing left to collapse into\n");
+ }
+
if (anon_target_order &&
!(thp_supported_orders() & (1UL << anon_target_order)))
ksft_exit_skip("Order %d is not a supported anon THP order\n",
--
2.54.0