linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging

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Message-ID: <88d6d5f08ff119625fa9accaa7b849dd77f9df25.1756211338.git.donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:19:22 +0530
From: Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>, Xu Xin <xu.xin16@....com.cn>,
        Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter

Add a new selftest to verify whether the `ksm_merging_pages` counter
in `mm_struct` is inherited by a child process after fork. This helps
ensure correctness of KSM accounting across process creation.

Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 .../selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c       | 42 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
index 712f43c87736..d971394c9567 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
@@ -602,6 +602,45 @@ static void test_prot_none(void)
 	munmap(map, size);
 }
 
+static void test_fork_ksm_merging_page(void)
+{
+	const unsigned int size = 2 * MiB;
+	char *map;
+	pid_t child_pid;
+	int status;
+
+	ksft_print_msg("[RUN] %s\n", __func__);
+
+	map = mmap_and_merge_range(0xcf, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, KSM_MERGE_MADVISE);
+	if (map == MAP_FAILED)
+		return;
+
+	child_pid = fork();
+	if (!child_pid) {
+		int mpages;
+
+		init_global_file_handles();
+		mpages = ksm_get_self_merging_pages();
+		if (mpages > 0)
+			ksft_test_result_fail("ksm_merging_page in child: %d\n", mpages);
+
+		exit(0);
+	} else if (child_pid < 0) {
+		ksft_test_result_fail("fork() failed\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (waitpid(child_pid, &status, 0) < 0) {
+		ksft_test_result_fail("waitpid() failed\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	ksft_test_result_pass("ksm_merging_pages is not inherited after fork\n");
+
+	ksm_stop();
+	munmap(map, size);
+}
+
 static void init_global_file_handles(void)
 {
 	mem_fd = open("/proc/self/mem", O_RDWR);
@@ -620,7 +659,7 @@ static void init_global_file_handles(void)
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-	unsigned int tests = 8;
+	unsigned int tests = 9;
 	int err;
 
 	if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME)) {
@@ -652,6 +691,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	test_prctl_fork();
 	test_prctl_fork_exec();
 	test_prctl_unmerge();
+	test_fork_ksm_merging_page();
 
 	err = ksft_get_fail_cnt();
 	if (err)
-- 
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