[PATCH] SelfTest: KVM: Drop Asserts for madvise failures

From: Ahmed Abd El Mawgood
Date: Thu Nov 15 2018 - 13:09:43 EST


From: Ahmed Abd El Mawgood <ahmedsoliman@xxxxxxxxxxx>

madvise() returns -1 without CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y. That would
trigger asserts when checking for return value of madvice. Following
similar decision to [1]. I thought it is ok to assume that madvise()
failures implies that THP is not supported by host kernel.

Other options were to check for Transparent Huge Page support in
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.

-- links --
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-11/msg04514.html

Signed-off-by: Ahmed Abd El Mawgood <ahmedsoliman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
index 1b41e71283d5..7725cfdf1b79 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
@@ -586,14 +586,12 @@ void vm_userspace_mem_region_add(struct kvm_vm *vm,
src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS_THP ? huge_page_size : 1);

/* As needed perform madvise */
- if (src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS || src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS_THP) {
- ret = madvise(region->host_mem, npages * vm->page_size,
- src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS ? MADV_NOHUGEPAGE : MADV_HUGEPAGE);
- TEST_ASSERT(ret == 0, "madvise failed,\n"
- " addr: %p\n"
- " length: 0x%lx\n"
- " src_type: %x",
- region->host_mem, npages * vm->page_size, src_type);
+ if (src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS) {
+ madvise(region->host_mem, npages * vm->page_size,
+ MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+ } else if (src_type == VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS_THP) {
+ madvise(region->host_mem, npages * vm->page_size,
+ MADV_HUGEPAGE);
}

region->unused_phy_pages = sparsebit_alloc();
--
2.18.1