After commit b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp"), cow test cases involving swapping out THPs via madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) started to be skipped due to the subsequent check via pagemap determining that the memory was not actually swapped out. Logs similar to this were emitted:
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# [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped-out, PTE-mapped THP (16 kB) ok 2 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled? # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with single PTE of swapped-out THP (16 kB) ok 3 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled? # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped-out, PTE-mapped THP (32 kB) ok 4 # SKIP MADV_PAGEOUT did not work, is swap enabled?
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The commit in question introduces the behaviour of scanning THPs and if their content is predominantly zero, it splits them and replaces the pages which are wholly zero with the zero page. These cow test cases were getting caught up in this.
So let's avoid that by filling the contents of all allocated memory with a non-zero value. With this in place, the tests are passing again.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com ---
Applies on top of mm-unstable (f349e79bfbf3)
Thanks, Ryan
tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c index 32c6ccc2a6be..1238e1c5aae1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c @@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ static void do_run_with_base_page(test_fn fn, bool swapout) }
/* Populate a base page. */ - memset(mem, 0, pagesize); + memset(mem, 1, pagesize);
if (swapout) { madvise(mem, pagesize, MADV_PAGEOUT); @@ -824,12 +824,12 @@ static void do_run_with_thp(test_fn fn, enum thp_run thp_run, size_t thpsize) * Try to populate a THP. Touch the first sub-page and test if * we get the last sub-page populated automatically. */ - mem[0] = 0; + mem[0] = 1; if (!pagemap_is_populated(pagemap_fd, mem + thpsize - pagesize)) { ksft_test_result_skip("Did not get a THP populated\n"); goto munmap; } - memset(mem, 0, thpsize); + memset(mem, 1, thpsize);
size = thpsize; switch (thp_run) { @@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ static void run_with_hugetlb(test_fn fn, const char *desc, size_t hugetlbsize) }
/* Populate an huge page. */ - memset(mem, 0, hugetlbsize); + memset(mem, 1, hugetlbsize);
/* * We need a total of two hugetlb pages to handle COW/unsharing -- 2.43.0