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Message-ID: <837a56d1-38ef-453d-9b94-b151765d5b84@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:47:16 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@...gle.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
 "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>,
 Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: remove PROT_EXEC req from file-collapse
 tests

On 09.09.25 21:05, Zach O'Keefe wrote:
> As of v6.8 commit 7fbb5e188248 ("mm: remove VM_EXEC requirement for THP eligibility")
> thp collapse no longer requires file-backed mappings be created with
> PROT_EXEC.
> 
> Remove the overly-strict dependency from thp collapse tests so we test
> the least-strict requirement for success.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@...gle.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> index a18c50d51141..3fe7ef04ac62 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ static void *file_setup_area(int nr_hpages)
>   		perror("open()");
>   		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>   	}
> -	p = mmap(BASE_ADDR, size, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC,
> +	p = mmap(BASE_ADDR, size, PROT_READ,
>   		 MAP_PRIVATE, finfo.fd, 0);
>   	if (p == MAP_FAILED || p != BASE_ADDR) {
>   		perror("mmap()");

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers

David / dhildenb