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Message-ID: <635fb13b-0e22-4e3d-a9ab-971f301a7d99@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:35:12 +0800
From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
hughd@...gle.com
Cc: willy@...radead.org, 21cnbao@...il.com, ryan.roberts@....com,
ziy@...dia.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: mincore: fix tmpfs mincore test failure
On 2025/4/7 15:49, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 07.04.25 05:49, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2025/4/1 20:54, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 26.03.25 04:38, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>>> When running mincore test cases, I encountered the following failures:
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>> mincore_selftest.c:359:check_tmpfs_mmap:Expected ra_pages (511) == 0
>>>> (0)
>>>> mincore_selftest.c:360:check_tmpfs_mmap:Read-ahead pages found in
>>>> memory
>>>> check_tmpfs_mmap: Test terminated by assertion
>>>> FAIL global.check_tmpfs_mmap
>>>> not ok 5 global.check_tmpfs_mmap
>>>> FAILED: 4 / 5 tests passed
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> The reason for the test case failure is that my system automatically
>>>> enabled
>>>> tmpfs large folio allocation by adding the
>>>> 'transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=always'
>>>> cmdline. However, the test case still expects the tmpfs mounted on
>>>> /dev/shm to
>>>> allocate small folios, which leads to assertion failures when
>>>> verifying readahead
>>>> pages.
>>>>
>>>> To fix this issue, remount tmpfs to a new test directory and set the
>>>> 'huge=never'
>>>> parameter to avoid allocating large folios, which can pass the test.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> .../selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c | 25
>>>> +++++++++++++++++--
>>>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
>>>> b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
>>>> index e949a43a6145..e8d7a3a4739f 100644
>>>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
>>>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mincore/mincore_selftest.c
>>>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
>>>> #include <unistd.h>
>>>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>>> #include <sys/mman.h>
>>>> +#include <sys/mount.h>
>>>> #include <string.h>
>>>> #include <fcntl.h>
>>>> @@ -283,7 +284,7 @@ TEST(check_file_mmap)
>>>> free(vec);
>>>> }
>>>> -
>>>> +#define INPUT_MAX 80
>>>> /*
>>>> * Test mincore() behavior on a page backed by a tmpfs file.
>>>> This test
>>>> * performs the same steps as the previous one. However, we don't
>>>> expect
>>>> @@ -291,6 +292,9 @@ TEST(check_file_mmap)
>>>> */
>>>> TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
>>>> {
>>>> + char tmpfs_template[] = "/tmp/check_tmpfs_XXXXXX";
>>>> + const char *tmpfs_loc = mkdtemp(tmpfs_template);
>>>> + char testfile[INPUT_MAX];
>>>> unsigned char *vec;
>>>> int vec_size;
>>>> char *addr;
>>>> @@ -300,6 +304,10 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
>>>> int i;
>>>> int ra_pages = 0;
>>>> + ASSERT_NE(NULL, tmpfs_loc) {
>>>> + TH_LOG("Can't mkdir tmpfs dentry\n");
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
>>>> vec_size = FILE_SIZE / page_size;
>>>> if (FILE_SIZE % page_size)
>>>> @@ -311,7 +319,18 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
>>>> }
>>>> errno = 0;
>>>> - fd = open("/dev/shm", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, 0600);
>>>> + /* Do not use large folios for tmpfs mincore testing */
>>>> + retval = mount("tmpfs", tmpfs_loc, "tmpfs", 0,
>>>> "huge=never,size=4M");
>>>> + ASSERT_EQ(0, retval) {
>>>> + TH_LOG("Unable to mount tmpfs for testing\n");
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + retval = snprintf(testfile, INPUT_MAX, "%s/test_file", tmpfs_loc);
>>>> + ASSERT_GE(INPUT_MAX, retval) {
>>>> + TH_LOG("Unable to create a tmpfs for testing\n");
>>>> + }
>>>> +
>>>> + fd = open(testfile, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0664);
>>>> ASSERT_NE(-1, fd) {
>>>> TH_LOG("Can't create temporary file: %s",
>>>> strerror(errno));
>>>> @@ -363,6 +382,8 @@ TEST(check_tmpfs_mmap)
>>>> munmap(addr, FILE_SIZE);
>>>> close(fd);
>>>> free(vec);
>>>> + umount(tmpfs_loc);
>>>> + rmdir(tmpfs_loc);
>>>> }
>>>> TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
>>>
>>> Is there anything that cleans up the mount in case something goes wrong
>>> (we run into an assertion), or will the directory+mount stick around
>>> forever?
>>
>> Good point, will cleanup the mount in the next version.
>>
>>>
>>> But I also wonder whether check_tmpfs_mmap() should be changed to live
>>> with the fact that readahead ("faultaround") could now happen. What's
>>> the reason for not doing that?
>>
>> From this test case's description, it doesn't expect any readahead.
>
> Yes, but why are we testing for that *at all*? We don't make such
> assumptions/tests for anon memmory ("no faultaround happened").
>
> Why not simply remove the "We expect only that page to be fetched into
> memory." documentation + checking?
OK. I'm fine with dropping the readahead check. Thanks.
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