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

From: Yeoreum Yun

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 12:51:40 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

Ah right. since all archs have the soft-dirty, we can remove the if
condition.

Thanks!

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Sincerely,
Yeoreum Yun