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Message-ID: <51d7af3f-a5a1-4a93-967d-dc4866060a28@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 09:17:37 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
 "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
 Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@...e.de>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
 Xu Xin <xu.xin16@....com.cn>, Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>,
 linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Stefan Roesch <shr@...kernel.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] tools/testing/selftests: add VMA merge tests for
 KSM merge

On 5/29/25 19:15, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Add test to assert that we have now allowed merging of VMAs when KSM
> merging-by-default has been set by prctl(PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE, ...).
> 
> We simply perform a trivial mapping of adjacent VMAs expecting a merge,
> however prior to recent changes implementing this mode earlier than before,
> these merges would not have succeeded.
> 
> Assert that we have fixed this!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
> Tested-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>


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