linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT

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Message-ID: <20250917055622.46564-1-lance.yang@linux.dev>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:56:22 +0800
From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	david@...hat.com,
	lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com
Cc: shuah@...nel.org,
	ioworker0@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests when CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled

From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>

The madv_populate and soft-dirty kselftests currently fail on systems where
CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY is disabled.

Introduce a new helper softdirty_is_supported() into vm_util.c/h to ensure
tests are properly skipped when the feature is not enabled.

Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@...ux.dev>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/madv_populate.c | 21 ++--------------
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c    |  5 +++-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c       | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h       |  1 +
 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/madv_populate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/madv_populate.c
index b6fabd5c27ed..43dac7783004 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/madv_populate.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/madv_populate.c
@@ -264,23 +264,6 @@ static void test_softdirty(void)
 	munmap(addr, SIZE);
 }
 
-static int system_has_softdirty(void)
-{
-	/*
-	 * There is no way to check if the kernel supports soft-dirty, other
-	 * than by writing to a page and seeing if the bit was set. But the
-	 * tests are intended to check that the bit gets set when it should, so
-	 * doing that check would turn a potentially legitimate fail into a
-	 * skip. Fortunately, we know for sure that arm64 does not support
-	 * soft-dirty. So for now, let's just use the arch as a corse guide.
-	 */
-#if defined(__aarch64__)
-	return 0;
-#else
-	return 1;
-#endif
-}
-
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	int nr_tests = 16;
@@ -288,7 +271,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	pagesize = getpagesize();
 
-	if (system_has_softdirty())
+	if (softdirty_is_supported())
 		nr_tests += 5;
 
 	ksft_print_header();
@@ -300,7 +283,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	test_holes();
 	test_populate_read();
 	test_populate_write();
-	if (system_has_softdirty())
+	if (softdirty_is_supported())
 		test_softdirty();
 
 	err = ksft_get_fail_cnt();
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
index 8a3f2b4b2186..98e42d2ac32a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c
@@ -200,8 +200,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int pagesize;
 
 	ksft_print_header();
-	ksft_set_plan(15);
 
+	if (!softdirty_is_supported())
+		ksft_exit_skip("soft-dirty is not support\n");
+
+	ksft_set_plan(15);
 	pagemap_fd = open(PAGEMAP_FILE_PATH, O_RDONLY);
 	if (pagemap_fd < 0)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Failed to open %s\n", PAGEMAP_FILE_PATH);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index 56e9bd541edd..3173335df775 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -449,6 +449,34 @@ bool check_vmflag_pfnmap(void *addr)
 	return check_vmflag(addr, "pf");
 }
 
+bool softdirty_is_supported(void)
+{
+	char *addr;
+	int ret = 0;
+	size_t pagesize;
+
+	/* We know for sure that arm64 does not support soft-dirty. */
+#if defined(__aarch64__)
+	return ret;
+#endif
+	pagesize = getpagesize();
+	/*
+	 * __mmap_complete() always sets VM_SOFTDIRTY for new VMAs, so we
+	 * just mmap a small region and check its VmFlags in /proc/self/smaps
+	 * for the "sd" flag.
+	 */
+	addr = mmap(0, pagesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+		    MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
+	if (!addr)
+		ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap failed\n");
+
+	if (check_vmflag(addr, "sd"))
+		ret = 1;
+
+	munmap(addr, pagesize);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Open an fd at /proc/$pid/maps and configure procmap_out ready for
  * PROCMAP_QUERY query. Returns 0 on success, or an error code otherwise.
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
index 07c4acfd84b6..87ad8e0d92c0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ bool find_vma_procmap(struct procmap_fd *procmap, void *address);
 int close_procmap(struct procmap_fd *procmap);
 int write_sysfs(const char *file_path, unsigned long val);
 int read_sysfs(const char *file_path, unsigned long *val);
+bool softdirty_is_supported(void);
 
 static inline int open_self_procmap(struct procmap_fd *procmap_out)
 {
-- 
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