[PATCH v6 6/6] selftests/mm: add a GUP selftest

From: Sarthak Sharma

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 10:16:13 EST


Add a new GUP selftest which uses kselftest_harness.h. Cover
12 mapping configurations: THP enabled, THP disabled and
HugeTLB, each across private/shared mappings and with/without
FOLL_WRITE. Run 7 testcases for every variant: get_user_pages,
get_user_pages_fast, pin_user_pages, pin_user_pages_fast,
pin_user_pages_longterm, and DUMP_USER_PAGES_TEST using both
get and pin.

Sweep four nr_pages_per_call values for each test: 1, 512, 123 and
all pages. This preserves the coverage previously provided by
run_gup_matrix(): 12 mapping combinations x 5 GUP/PUP operations x 4
batch sizes, for 240 ioctl calls. The two dump modes add another 96
calls.

Preserve the previous sparse dump coverage with a standalone test for
pages 0, 19 and 0x1000. In total the selftest reports 85 TAP
cases and issues 337 ioctls.

Add the new gup binary to the selftests/mm build, .gitignore,
run_vmtests.sh and MAINTAINERS. Update
Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for the new test.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 14 +-
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c | 341 ++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 1 +
6 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
index c16ca163b55e..1564b16994ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
@@ -228,12 +228,18 @@ Unit testing
============
This file::

- tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_test.c
+ tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c

-has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions:
+contains the following test cases to exercise pin_user_pages*():

-* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_test -a)
-* PIN_BASIC_TEST (./gup_test -b)
+* pin_user_pages via PIN_BASIC_TEST
+* pin_user_pages_fast via PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK
+* pin_user_pages_longterm via PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK
+
+Run with::
+
+ make -C tools/testing/selftests/mm
+ ./tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup

You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released
since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: ::
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 5845fa74a5a0..e59158c59a6e 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -17028,6 +17028,7 @@ F: mm/gup.c
F: mm/gup_test.c
F: mm/gup_test.h
F: tools/mm/gup_bench.c
+F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c
F: tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c

MEMORY MANAGEMENT - KSM (Kernel Samepage Merging)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
index c30cd7ce635e..bf3a409dc219 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ local_config.h
local_config.mk
ksm_functional_tests
mdwe_test
+gup
gup_longterm
mkdirty
va_high_addr_switch
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
index 44b16cbaee5b..0a15da7d3439 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ endif

TEST_GEN_FILES = cow
TEST_GEN_FILES += compaction_test
+TEST_GEN_FILES += gup
TEST_GEN_FILES += gup_longterm
TEST_GEN_FILES += hmm-tests
TEST_GEN_FILES += hugetlb-madvise
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a9b374b752df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup.c
@@ -0,0 +1,341 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#define __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ // Use ll64
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <mm/gup_test.h>
+#include "vm_util.h"
+#include "kselftest_harness.h"
+
+#define MB (1UL << 20)
+
+/* Just the flags we need, copied from the kernel internals. */
+#define FOLL_WRITE 0x01 /* check pte is writable */
+
+/* Page counts exercising single, THP-batch, partial, and full-mapping GUP. */
+static const int nr_pages_list[] = { 1, 512, 123, -1 };
+
+#define GUP_TEST_FILE "/sys/kernel/debug/gup_test"
+
+FIXTURE(gup_test)
+{
+ int gup_fd;
+ char *addr;
+ unsigned long size;
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT(gup_test)
+{
+ bool thp;
+ bool hugetlb;
+ bool write;
+ bool shared;
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_write)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_read)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_write_thp)
+{
+ .thp = true,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_read_thp)
+{
+ .thp = true,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_write_hugetlb)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = true,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, private_read_hugetlb)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = true,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = false,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_write)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_read)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_write_thp)
+{
+ .thp = true,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_read_thp)
+{
+ .thp = true,
+ .hugetlb = false,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_write_hugetlb)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = true,
+ .write = true,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_VARIANT_ADD(gup_test, shared_read_hugetlb)
+{
+ .thp = false,
+ .hugetlb = true,
+ .write = false,
+ .shared = true,
+};
+
+FIXTURE_SETUP(gup_test)
+{
+ int mmap_flags = MAP_PRIVATE;
+ int zero_fd;
+ char *p;
+
+ /* zero_fd has to be >= 0. Already checked in main() */
+ zero_fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR);
+ ASSERT_GE(zero_fd, 0);
+
+ /* gup_fd has to be >= 0. Already checked in main() */
+ self->gup_fd = open(GUP_TEST_FILE, O_RDWR);
+ ASSERT_GE(self->gup_fd, 0);
+
+ self->size = variant->hugetlb ? 256 * MB : 128 * MB;
+
+ if (variant->hugetlb) {
+ unsigned long hp_size = default_huge_page_size();
+
+ if (!hp_size) {
+ close(zero_fd);
+ close(self->gup_fd);
+ SKIP(return, "HugeTLB not available\n");
+ }
+
+ self->size = (self->size + hp_size - 1) & ~(hp_size - 1);
+ if (!hugetlb_setup_default(self->size / hp_size)) {
+ hugetlb_restore_settings();
+ close(zero_fd);
+ close(self->gup_fd);
+ SKIP(return, "Not enough huge pages\n");
+ }
+
+ mmap_flags |= (MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_ANONYMOUS);
+ }
+
+ if (variant->shared)
+ mmap_flags = (mmap_flags & ~MAP_PRIVATE) | MAP_SHARED;
+
+ self->addr = mmap(NULL, self->size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ mmap_flags, zero_fd, 0);
+
+ ASSERT_NE(self->addr, MAP_FAILED) {
+ int err = errno;
+
+ close(zero_fd);
+ close(self->gup_fd);
+ if (variant->hugetlb)
+ hugetlb_restore_settings();
+ TH_LOG("mmap failed: %s", strerror(err));
+ }
+ close(zero_fd);
+
+ if (variant->thp)
+ madvise(self->addr, self->size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
+ else if (!variant->hugetlb)
+ madvise(self->addr, self->size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
+
+ for (p = self->addr; (unsigned long)p < (unsigned long)self->addr
+ + self->size; p += psize())
+ p[0] = 0;
+}
+
+FIXTURE_TEARDOWN(gup_test)
+{
+ munmap(self->addr, self->size);
+ close(self->gup_fd);
+
+ if (variant->hugetlb)
+ hugetlb_restore_settings();
+}
+
+static void run_gup_cmd(struct __test_metadata *_metadata,
+ FIXTURE_DATA(gup_test) *self,
+ const FIXTURE_VARIANT(gup_test) *variant,
+ unsigned long command,
+ unsigned int test_flags,
+ unsigned int which_page)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < (int)ARRAY_SIZE(nr_pages_list); i++) {
+ struct gup_test gup = {
+ .addr = (unsigned long)self->addr,
+ .size = self->size,
+ .nr_pages_per_call = nr_pages_list[i] < 0 ?
+ self->size / psize() : nr_pages_list[i],
+ .test_flags = test_flags,
+ };
+
+ if (variant->write)
+ gup.gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+
+ gup.which_pages[0] = which_page;
+
+ TH_LOG("nr_pages_per_call=%u", gup.nr_pages_per_call);
+ ASSERT_EQ(ioctl(self->gup_fd, command, &gup), 0);
+ }
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, get_user_pages)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, GUP_BASIC_TEST, 0, 0);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, pin_user_pages)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, PIN_BASIC_TEST, 0, 0);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, dump_user_pages_with_get)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, DUMP_USER_PAGES_TEST, 0, 1);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, dump_user_pages_with_pin)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, DUMP_USER_PAGES_TEST,
+ GUP_TEST_FLAG_DUMP_PAGES_USE_PIN, 1);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, get_user_pages_fast)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, GUP_FAST_BENCHMARK, 0, 0);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, pin_user_pages_fast)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK, 0, 0);
+}
+
+TEST_F(gup_test, pin_user_pages_longterm)
+{
+ run_gup_cmd(_metadata, self, variant, PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK, 0, 0);
+}
+
+TEST(dump_user_pages_sparse_indices)
+{
+ struct gup_test gup = { 0 };
+ unsigned long size = 128 * MB;
+ int zero_fd, gup_fd;
+ char *addr, *p;
+
+ zero_fd = open("/dev/zero", O_RDWR);
+ ASSERT_GE(zero_fd, 0);
+
+ gup_fd = open(GUP_TEST_FILE, O_RDWR);
+ ASSERT_GE(gup_fd, 0);
+
+ addr = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, zero_fd, 0);
+ close(zero_fd);
+ ASSERT_NE(addr, MAP_FAILED);
+
+ madvise(addr, size, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
+
+ for (p = addr; (unsigned long)p < (unsigned long)addr + size;
+ p += psize())
+ p[0] = 0;
+
+ gup.addr = (unsigned long)addr;
+ gup.size = size;
+ gup.nr_pages_per_call = size / psize();
+ gup.gup_flags = FOLL_WRITE;
+ gup.which_pages[0] = 1;
+ gup.which_pages[1] = 20;
+ gup.which_pages[2] = 0x1001;
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(ioctl(gup_fd, DUMP_USER_PAGES_TEST, &gup), 0);
+
+ munmap(addr, size);
+ close(gup_fd);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ int fd;
+ char *file = "/dev/zero";
+
+ fd = open(file, O_RDWR);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ ksft_print_header();
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("Unable to open %s: %s\n", file, strerror(errno));
+ }
+ close(fd);
+
+ fd = open(GUP_TEST_FILE, O_RDWR);
+ if (fd == -1) {
+ ksft_print_header();
+ if (errno == EACCES)
+ ksft_exit_skip("Please run this test as root\n");
+ if (errno == ENOENT) {
+ DIR *debugfs = opendir("/sys/kernel/debug");
+
+ if (!debugfs) {
+ ksft_exit_skip("Mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug\n");
+ } else {
+ closedir(debugfs);
+ ksft_exit_skip("Check CONFIG_GUP_TEST in kernel config\n");
+ }
+ }
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to open %s: %s\n", GUP_TEST_FILE, strerror(errno));
+ }
+ close(fd);
+
+ return test_harness_run(argc, argv);
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index 263e4940cc1d..8cc4c8f403da 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ fi

CATEGORY="mmap" run_test ./map_fixed_noreplace

+CATEGORY="gup_test" run_test ./gup
CATEGORY="gup_test" run_test ./gup_longterm

CATEGORY="userfaultfd" run_test ./uffd-unit-tests
--
2.39.5