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selftests: khugepaged: fix the shmem collapse failure 

When running the khugepaged selftest for shmem (./khugepaged all:shmem), I
encountered the following test failures:

: Run test: collapse_full (khugepaged:shmem)
: Collapse multiple fully populated PTE table.... Fail
: ...
: Run test: collapse_single_pte_entry (khugepaged:shmem)
: Collapse PTE table with single PTE entry present.... Fail
: ...
: Run test: collapse_full_of_compound (khugepaged:shmem)
: Allocate huge page... OK
: Split huge page leaving single PTE page table full of compound pages... OK
: Collapse PTE table full of compound pages.... Fail

The reason for the failure is that it will set MADV_NOHUGEPAGE to prevent
khugepaged from continuing to scan shmem VMA after khugepaged finishes
scanning in the wait_for_scan() function.  Moreover, shmem requires a
refault to establish PMD mappings.

However, after commit 2b0f922323 ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when
THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma"), PMD mappings are prevented if
the VMA is set with MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flag, so shmem cannot establish PMD
mappings during refault.

One way to fix this issue is to move the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting after the
shmem refault.  After shmem refault and check huge, the test case will
unmap the shmem immediately.  So it seems unnecessary to set the
MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.

Then we can simply drop the MADV_NOHUGEPAGE setting, and all khugepaged
test cases passed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d8502fc50d0304c2afd27ced062b1d636b7a872e.1749779183.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 2b0f922323 ("mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
pull/1311/head
Baolin Wang 2025-06-13 09:49:19 +08:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 234dda7a49
commit 7962e05a83
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@ -561,8 +561,6 @@ static bool wait_for_scan(const char *msg, char *p, int nr_hpages,
usleep(TICK);
}
madvise(p, nr_hpages * hpage_pmd_size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
return timeout == -1;
}