linux-kernel - [PATCH V2 8/8] mshare: selftests: Add test case to demostrate that mshare partly supports THP

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Message-Id: <20250919130620.56518-8-linyongting@bytedance.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:06:20 +0800
From: Yongting Lin <linyongting@...edance.com>
To: anthony.yznaga@...cle.com,
	khalid@...nel.org,
	shuah@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	libo.gcs85@...edance.com,
	Yongting Lin <linyongting@...edance.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 8/8] mshare: selftests: Add test case to demostrate that mshare partly supports THP

Currently, mshare doesn't support madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) to make pages
become THP page.

Thus we need to set /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled
to 'always', enabling mshare to acquire THP pages in a best effort way.

This case is quit simple that set up a mshare memory with 2MB size,
than use memset to fill the physical memory and verify whether THP
was allocated by reading memory.stat.

Signed-off-by: Yongting Lin <linyongting@...edance.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mshare/memory.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mshare/memory.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mshare/memory.c
index 4bb0d22b9c03..5132210b1465 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mshare/memory.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mshare/memory.c
@@ -68,4 +68,22 @@ TEST_F(memory, swap)
 	ASSERT_GT(swap_size, MB(2) * 9 / 10);
 }
 
+TEST_F(memory, thp)
+{
+	/* fill physical memory */
+	memset(self->addr, 0x01, MB(2));
+
+	size_t huge = read_huge_from_cgroup(self->cgroup);
+
+	/*
+	 * mshare only allocate in the best effort way, and
+	 * don't support madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) to change pages
+	 * into THP or khuged to replace pages with THP.
+	 */
+	ksft_print_msg("Tip: Please enable transparent hugepages for shmem before running this test.\n"
+			"For example: echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled\n");
+
+	ASSERT_GE(huge, MB(2));
+}
+
 TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
-- 
2.20.1