[PATCH 1/2] selftests: mincore: fix tmpfs mincore test failure
From: Baolin Wang
Date: Tue Mar 25 2025 - 23:38:55 EST
When running mincore test cases, I encountered the following failures:
"
mincore_selftest.c:359:check_tmpfs_mmap:Expected ra_pages (511) == 0 (0)
mincore_selftest.c:360:check_tmpfs_mmap:Read-ahead pages found in memory
check_tmpfs_mmap: Test terminated by assertion
FAIL global.check_tmpfs_mmap
not ok 5 global.check_tmpfs_mmap
FAILED: 4 / 5 tests passed
"
The reason for the test case failure is that my system automatically enabled
tmpfs large folio allocation by adding the 'transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=always'
cmdline. However, the test case still expects the tmpfs mounted on /dev/shm to
allocate small folios, which leads to assertion failures when verifying readahead
pages.
To fix this issue, remount tmpfs to a new test directory and set the 'huge=never'
parameter to avoid allocating large folios, which can pass the test.
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
index e949a43a6145..e8d7a3a4739f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
@@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ TEST(check_file_mmap)
free(vec);
}
-
+#define INPUT_MAX 80
/*
* Test mincore() behavior on a page backed by a tmpfs file. This test
* performs the same steps as the previous one. However, we don't expect
@@ -291,6 +292,9 @@ TEST(check_file_mmap)
*/
TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
{
+ char tmpfs_template[] = "/tmp/check_tmpfs_XXXXXX";
+ const char *tmpfs_loc = mkdtemp(tmpfs_template);
+ char testfile[INPUT_MAX];
unsigned char *vec;
int vec_size;
char *addr;
@@ -300,6 +304,10 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
int i;
int ra_pages = 0;
+ ASSERT_NE(NULL, tmpfs_loc) {
+ TH_LOG("Can't mkdir tmpfs dentry\n");
+ }
+
page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
vec_size = FILE_SIZE / page_size;
if (FILE_SIZE % page_size)
@@ -311,7 +319,18 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
}
errno = 0;
- fd = open("/dev/shm", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, 0600);
+ /* Do not use large folios for tmpfs mincore testing */
+ retval = mount("tmpfs", tmpfs_loc, "tmpfs", 0, "huge=never,size=4M");
+ ASSERT_EQ(0, retval) {
+ TH_LOG("Unable to mount tmpfs for testing\n");
+ }
+
+ retval = snprintf(testfile, INPUT_MAX, "%s/test_file", tmpfs_loc);
+ ASSERT_GE(INPUT_MAX, retval) {
+ TH_LOG("Unable to create a tmpfs for testing\n");
+ }
+
+ fd = open(testfile, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0664);
ASSERT_NE(-1, fd) {
TH_LOG("Can't create temporary file: %s",
strerror(errno));
@@ -363,6 +382,8 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
munmap(addr, FILE_SIZE);
close(fd);
free(vec);
+ umount(tmpfs_loc);
+ rmdir(tmpfs_loc);
}
TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
--
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