Currently, the test tries to set nr_hugepages to zero, but that is not actually done because the file offset is not reset after read(). Fix that using lseek().
Fixes: bd67d5c15cc1 ("Test compaction of mlocked memory") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dev Jain dev.jain@arm.com --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c index 0b249a06a60b..5e9bd1da9370 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size) goto close_fd; }
+ lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); + /* Start with the initial condition of 0 huge pages*/ if (write(fd, "0", sizeof(char)) != sizeof(char)) { ksft_print_msg("Failed to write 0 to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",