Re: [PATCH] kselftest: mm: remove exclusion of building soft-dirty test in arm64

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 11:17:26 EST


On 9/11/26 14:50, Yeoreum Yun wrote:
> Since commit 0389c305ef56 (“selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled”),
> the soft-dirty test is skipped when soft-dirty is not supported.
>
> There is therefore no reason to exclude the test from being built on
> arm64. Remove the arm64-specific exclusion.
>
> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
> index 2d5366196e30..d3e9bd67904a 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
> @@ -104,10 +104,7 @@ TEST_GEN_FILES += guard-regions
> TEST_GEN_FILES += merge
> TEST_GEN_FILES += rmap
> TEST_GEN_FILES += folio_split_race_test
> -
> -ifneq ($(ARCH),arm64)
> TEST_GEN_FILES += soft-dirty
> -endif
>
> ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
> CAN_BUILD_I386 := $(shell ./../x86/check_cc.sh "$(CC)" ../x86/trivial_32bit_program.c -m32)

Does that mean we can also the following?

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index d09f9f6a384ee..33963535616b2 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -390,10 +390,7 @@ then
CATEGORY="pkey" run_test ./protection_keys_64
fi

-if [ -x ./soft-dirty ]
-then
- CATEGORY="soft_dirty" run_test ./soft-dirty
-fi
+CATEGORY="soft_dirty" run_test ./soft-dirty

CATEGORY="pagemap" run_test ./pagemap_ioctl

--
Cheers,

David