linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests

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Message-ID: <2ae04380-fd60-a8a1-6217-386454fec610@huawei.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:19:19 +0800
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>
CC: <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>, <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	<rppt@...nel.org>, <surenb@...gle.com>, <mhocko@...e.com>,
	<nao.horiguchi@...il.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests

On 2026/1/9 21:45, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) wrote:
> On 1/7/26 10:37, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> Introduce selftests to validate the functionality of memory failure.
>> These tests help ensure that memory failure handling for anonymous
>> pages, pagecaches pages works correctly, including proper SIGBUS
>> delivery to user processes, page isolation, and recovery paths.
>>
>> Currently madvise syscall is used to inject memory failures. And only
>> anonymous pages and pagecaches are tested. More test scenarios, e.g.
>> hugetlb, shmem, thp, will be added. Also more memory failure injecting
>> methods will be supported, e.g. APEI Error INJection, if required.
> 

Thanks for test and report. :)

> 0day reports that these tests fail:
> 
> # # ------------------------
> # # running ./memory-failure
> # # ------------------------
> # # TAP version 13
> # # 1..6
> # # # Starting 6 tests from 2 test cases.
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_hard.anon ...
> # # #            OK  memory_failure.madv_hard.anon
> # # ok 1 memory_failure.madv_hard.anon
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_hard.clean_pagecache ...
> # # # memory-failure.c:166:clean_pagecache:Expected setjmp (1) == 0 (0)
> # # # clean_pagecache: Test terminated by assertion
> # # #          FAIL  memory_failure.madv_hard.clean_pagecache
> # # not ok 2 memory_failure.madv_hard.clean_pagecache
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_hard.dirty_pagecache ...
> # # # memory-failure.c:207:dirty_pagecache:Expected unpoison_memory(self->pfn) (-16) == 0 (0)
> # # # dirty_pagecache: Test terminated by assertion
> # # #          FAIL  memory_failure.madv_hard.dirty_pagecache
> # # not ok 3 memory_failure.madv_hard.dirty_pagecache
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_soft.anon ...
> # # #            OK  memory_failure.madv_soft.anon
> # # ok 4 memory_failure.madv_soft.anon
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_soft.clean_pagecache ...
> # # # memory-failure.c:282:clean_pagecache:Expected variant->inject(self, addr) (-1) == 0 (0)
> # # # clean_pagecache: Test terminated by assertion
> # # #          FAIL  memory_failure.madv_soft.clean_pagecache
> # # not ok 5 memory_failure.madv_soft.clean_pagecache
> # # #  RUN           memory_failure.madv_soft.dirty_pagecache ...
> # # # memory-failure.c:319:dirty_pagecache:Expected variant->inject(self, addr) (-1) == 0 (0)
> # # # dirty_pagecache: Test terminated by assertion
> # # #          FAIL  memory_failure.madv_soft.dirty_pagecache
> # # not ok 6 memory_failure.madv_soft.dirty_pagecache
> # # # FAILED: 2 / 6 tests passed.
> # # # Totals: pass:2 fail:4 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> # # [FAIL]
> # not ok 71 memory-failure # exit=1
> 
> 
> Can the test maybe not deal with running in certain environments (config options etc)?

To run the test, I think there should be:
  1.CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE and CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT should be enabled.
  2.Root privilege is required.
  3.For dirty/clean pagecache testcases, the test file "./clean-page-cache-test-file" and
    "./dirty-page-cache-test-file" are assumed to be created on non-memory file systems
    such as xfs, ext4, etc.

Does your test environment break any of the above rules? Am I expected to add some code to
guard against this?

Thanks.
.