Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb: fix hugetlbfs mount size for large hugepages
From: Li Wang
Date: Sun Dec 21 2025 - 04:44:39 EST
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/21/25 09:58, Li Wang wrote:
> > charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh mounts a hugetlbfs instance at /mnt/huge with
> > a fixed size of 256M. On systems with large base hugepages (e.g. 512MB),
> > this is smaller than a single hugepage, so the hugetlbfs mount ends up
> > with effectively zero capacity (often visible as size=0 in mount output).
> >
> > As a result, write_to_hugetlbfs fails with ENOMEM and the test can hang
> > waiting for progress.
>
> I'm curious, what's the history of using "256MB" in the first place (or
> specifying any size?).
Seems the script initializes it with "256MB" from:
commit 29750f71a9b4cfae57cdddfbd8ca287eddca5503
Author: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 1 21:11:38 2020 -0700
hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests
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Regards,
Li Wang