linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] mm/selftests: Don't prefault in gup

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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:01:51 -0400
From: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
	peterx@...hat.com,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm/selftests: Don't prefault in gup_longterm tests

Prefault, especially with RW, makes the GUP test too easy, and may not yet
reach the core of the test.

For example, R/O longterm pins will just hit, pte_write()==true for
whatever cases, the unsharing logic won't be ever tested.

This patch remove the prefault.  This tortures more code paths at least to
cover the unshare care for R/O longterm pins, in which case the first R/O
GUP attempt will fault in the page R/O first, then the 2nd will go through
the unshare path, checking whether an unshare is needed.

Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c
index ad168d35b23b..488e32186246 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm.c
@@ -119,10 +119,16 @@ static void do_test(int fd, size_t size, enum test_type type, bool shared)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Fault in the page writable such that GUP-fast can eventually pin
-	 * it immediately.
+	 * Explicitly avoid pre-faulting in the page, this can help testing
+	 * more code paths.
+	 *
+	 * Take example of an upcoming R/O pin test, if we RW prefault the
+	 * page, such pin will directly skip R/O unsharing and the longterm
+	 * pin will success mostly always.  When not prefaulted, R/O
+	 * longterm pin will first fault in a RO page, then the 2nd round
+	 * it'll go via the unshare check.  Otherwise those paths aren't
+	 * covered.
 	 */
-	memset(mem, 0, size);
 
 	switch (type) {
 	case TEST_TYPE_RO:
-- 
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