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Message-ID: <be2513e0-0d8b-42bf-a1f2-485041b5d320@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:10:14 +0530
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
To: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@...nel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>, Mark Brown
<broonie@...nel.org>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] selftests/mm: fix usage of FORCE_READ() in cow
tests
On 07/01/26 10:18 pm, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> Commit 5bbc2b785e63 ("selftests/mm: fix FORCE_READ to read input
> value correctly") modified FORCE_READ() to take a value instead of a
> pointer. It also changed most of the call sites accordingly, but
> missed many of them in cow.c. In those cases, we ended up with the
> pointer itself being read, not the memory it points to.
>
> No failure occurred as a result, so it looks like the tests work
> just fine without faulting in. However, the huge_zeropage tests
> explicitly check that pages are populated, so those became skipped.
>
> Convert all the remaining FORCE_READ() to fault in the mapped page,
> as was originally intended. This allows the huge_zeropage tests to
> run again (3 tests in total).
>
> Fixes: 5bbc2b785e63 ("selftests/mm: fix FORCE_READ to read input value correctly")
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@....com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>
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