linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 12/12] selftests/mm: khugepaged: Enlighten for mTHP collapse

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Message-Id: <20241216165105.56185-13-dev.jain@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:21:05 +0530
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
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	Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 12/12] selftests/mm: khugepaged: Enlighten for mTHP collapse

One of the testcases triggers a CoW on the 255th page (0-indexing) with
max_ptes_shared = 256. This leads to 0-254 pages (255 in number) being unshared,
and 257 pages shared, exceeding the constraint. Suppose we run the test as
./khugepaged -s 2. Therefore, khugepaged starts collapsing the range to order-2
folios, since PMD-collapse will fail due to the constraint.
When the scan reaches 254-257 PTE range, because at least one PTE in this range
is writable, with other 3 being read-only, khugepaged collapses this into an
order-2 mTHP, resulting in 3 extra PTEs getting unshared. After this, we encounter
a 4-sized chunk of read-only PTEs, and mTHP collapse stops according to the scaled
constraint, but the number of shared PTEs have now come under the constraint for
PMD-sized THPs. Therefore, the next scan of khugepaged will be able to collapse
this range into a PMD-mapped hugepage, leading to failure of this subtest. Fix
this by reducing the CoW range.

Note: The only objective of this patch is to make the test work for the PMD-case;
no extension has been made for testing for mTHPs.

Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 8a4d34cce36b..143c4ad9f6a1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ static void collapse_fork_compound(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *o
 static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *ops)
 {
 	int max_ptes_shared = thp_read_num("khugepaged/max_ptes_shared");
+	int fault_nr_pages = is_anon(ops) ? 1 << anon_order : 1;
 	int wstatus;
 	void *p;

@@ -997,8 +998,8 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_shared(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops
 			fail("Fail");

 		printf("Trigger CoW on page %d of %d...",
-				hpage_pmd_nr - max_ptes_shared - 1, hpage_pmd_nr);
-		ops->fault(p, 0, (hpage_pmd_nr - max_ptes_shared - 1) * page_size);
+				hpage_pmd_nr - max_ptes_shared - fault_nr_pages, hpage_pmd_nr);
+		ops->fault(p, 0, (hpage_pmd_nr - max_ptes_shared - fault_nr_pages) * page_size);
 		if (ops->check_huge(p, 0))
 			success("OK");
 		else
-- 
2.30.2