Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them

From: Muhammad Usama Anjum
Date: Wed Mar 05 2025 - 03:25:42 EST


Hi,

Thanks for adding to the series Dev Jain. The series looks good. Thanks for doing
such a series. It helps everyone.

For the series:
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 2/28/25 9:54 PM, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> I never had much luck running mm selftests so I spent a few hours
> digging into why.
>
> Looks like most of the reason is missing SKIP checks, so this series is
> just adding a bunch of those that I found. I did not do anything like
> all of them, just the ones I spotted in gup_longterm, gup_test, mmap,
> userfaultfd and memfd_secret.
>
> It's a bit unfortunate to have to skip those tests when ftruncate()
> fails, but I don't have time to dig deep enough into it to actually make
> them pass. I have observed the issue on 9pfs and heard rumours that NFS
> has a similar problem.
>
> I'm now able to run these test groups successfully:
>
> - mmap
> - gup_test
> - compaction
> - migration
> - page_frag
> - userfaultfd
>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Added fix for userfaultfd tests.
> - Dropped attempts to use sudo.
> - Fixed garbage printf in uffd-stress.
> (Added EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Werror FORCE_TARGETS=1 to my scripts to prevent
> such errors happening again).
> - Fixed missing newlines in ksft_test_result_skip() calls.
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250221-mm-selftests-v2-0-28c4d66383c5@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v2 (Thanks to Dev for the reviews):
> - Improve and cleanup some error messages
> - Add some extra SKIPs
> - Fix misnaming of nr_cpus variable in uffd tests
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220-mm-selftests-v1-0-9bbf57d64463@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Brendan Jackman (10):
> selftests/mm: Report errno when things fail in gup_longterm
> selftests/mm: Skip uffd-stress if userfaultfd not available
> selftests/mm: Skip uffd-wp-mremap if userfaultfd not available
> selftests/mm/uffd: Rename nr_cpus -> nr_threads
> selftests/mm: Print some details when uffd-stress gets bad params
> selftests/mm: Don't fail uffd-stress if too many CPUs
> selftests/mm: Skip map_populate on weird filesystems
> selftests/mm: Skip gup_longerm tests on weird filesystems
> selftests/mm: Drop unnecessary sudo usage
> selftests/mm: Ensure uffd-wp-mremap gets pages of each size
>
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++----------
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/map_populate.c | 7 +++++
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 25 ++++++++++++++--
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c | 8 ++---
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.h | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-stress.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++----------
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-wp-mremap.c | 5 +++-
> 8 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 76544811c850a1f4c055aa182b513b7a843868ea
> change-id: 20250220-mm-selftests-2d7d0542face
>
> Best regards,


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BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum