linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/8] selftests/vm: gup_test, hmm-tests, assorted improvements

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Date:   Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:27:39 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/8] selftests/vm: gup_test, hmm-tests, assorted improvements

Changes since v1:

* check_config.sh now invokes the compiler via the Makefile's ($CC),
thanks to Jason Gunthorpe for calling that out.

* Removed a misleading sentence from patch #6, as identified by Ira
Weiny.

* Removed a forward-looking sentence, about using -lpthread in
gup_test.c soon, from the commit message in patch #4, since I'm not yet
sure if my local pthread-based stress tests are actually worthwhile or
not.

Original cover letter, still accurate at this point:

This is based on the latest mmotm.

Summary: This series provides two main things, and a number of smaller
supporting goodies. The two main points are:

1) Add a new sub-test to gup_test, which in turn is a renamed version of
gup_benchmark. This sub-test allows nicer testing of dump_pages(), at
least on user-space pages.

For quite a while, I was doing a quick hack to gup_test.c whenever I
wanted to try out changes to dump_page(). Then Matthew Wilcox asked me
what I meant when I said "I used my dump_page() unit test", and I
realized that it might be nice to check in a polished up version of
that.

Details about how it works and how to use it are in the commit
description for patch #6.

2) Fixes a limitation of hmm-tests: these tests are incredibly useful,
but only if people actually build and run them. And it turns out that
libhugetlbfs is a little too effective at throwing a wrench in the
works, there. So I've added a little configuration check that removes
just two of the 21 hmm-tests, if libhugetlbfs is not available.

Further details in the commit description of patch #8.

Other smaller things that this series does:

a) Remove code duplication by creating gup_test.h.

b) Clear up the sub-test organization, and their invocation within
run_vmtests.sh.

c) Other minor assorted improvements.

John Hubbard (8):
  mm/gup_benchmark: rename to mm/gup_test
  selftests/vm: use a common gup_test.h
  selftests/vm: rename run_vmtests --> run_vmtests.sh
  selftests/vm: minor cleanup: Makefile and gup_test.c
  selftests/vm: only some gup_test items are really benchmarks
  selftests/vm: gup_test: introduce the dump_pages() sub-test
  selftests/vm: run_vmtest.sh: update and clean up gup_test invocation
  selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency

 Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst     |   6 +-
 arch/s390/configs/debug_defconfig             |   2 +-
 arch/s390/configs/defconfig                   |   2 +-
 mm/Kconfig                                    |  21 +-
 mm/Makefile                                   |   2 +-
 mm/{gup_benchmark.c => gup_test.c}            | 109 ++++++----
 mm/gup_test.h                                 |  32 +++
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore         |   3 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile           |  38 +++-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/check_config.sh    |  31 +++
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/config             |   2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c    | 137 -------------
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c         | 188 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c        |  10 +-
 .../vm/{run_vmtests => run_vmtest.sh}         |  24 ++-
 15 files changed, 404 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)
 rename mm/{gup_benchmark.c => gup_test.c} (59%)
 create mode 100644 mm/gup_test.h
 create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/vm/check_config.sh
 delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
 rename tools/testing/selftests/vm/{run_vmtests => run_vmtest.sh} (91%)

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