linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] selftests/mm: rename guard-pages to guard-regions

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Message-ID: <13426c71-d069-4407-9340-b227ff8b8736@lucifer.local>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 08:35:14 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, Juan Yescas <jyescas@...gle.com>,
        Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] selftests/mm: rename guard-pages to guard-regions

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> The feature formerly referred to as guard pages is more correctly referred
> to as 'guard regions', as in fact no pages are ever allocated in the
> process of installing the regions.
>
> To avoid confusion, rename the tests accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>

Hi Andrew, apologies I realise I missed updating run_vmtests.sh here, mea culpa.

Quick fix-patch enclosed, thanks!

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>From 1b9a2d1fad165f9b7dd327a9e369e16c87661e9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 08:31:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tools/selftests: fix guard regions invocation

---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index fe3606de37f9..55d4453793eb 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ CATEGORY="mremap" run_test ./mremap_dontunmap
 CATEGORY="hmm" run_test bash ./test_hmm.sh smoke

 # MADV_GUARD_INSTALL and MADV_GUARD_REMOVE tests
-CATEGORY="madv_guard" run_test ./guard-pages
+CATEGORY="madv_guard" run_test ./guard-regions

 # MADV_POPULATE_READ and MADV_POPULATE_WRITE tests
 CATEGORY="madv_populate" run_test ./madv_populate
--
2.48.1