linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/mm: report SKIP in pfnmap if a check fails

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Message-ID: <0b82e184-2a2d-41e9-a2ee-2664c382fa8a@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:45:03 +0100
From: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
 "David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Mark Brown
 <broonie@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] selftests/mm: report SKIP in pfnmap if a check
 fails

On 20/01/2026 17:27, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>> But if you think that concern is unfounded, certainly just opening it once and
>>> reusing will simplify.
>> I would just keep it simple here, yes. If this ever becomes a real problem, my
>> intuition would tell me that probably the caller is doing something unsupported
>> that we just cannot easily identify+reject.
> Yeah fair enough.

Cool, will make the fd a global as well then.

- Kevin