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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2023-11-03 10:33:59 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-11-15 15:30:08 -0800
commitdd9b35efd719be242e227f9eebad1e50ea5c914f (patch)
tree7e9fa87624aad69c2be17ce8eb6c32c22191b6d3 /tools
parent9297e5360c3bd777f95d5146dbeda7fb9ba4273a (diff)
downloadlinux-rcu-dd9b35efd719be242e227f9eebad1e50ea5c914f.tar.gz
selftests/mm: restore number of hugepages
The test mm `hugetlb_fault_after_madv` selftest needs one and only one huge page to run, thus it sets `/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages` to 1. The problem is that further tests require the previous number of hugepages allocated in order to succeed. Save the number of huge pages before changing it, and restore it once the test finishes, so, further tests could run successfully. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231103173400.1608403-1-leitao@debian.org Fixes: 116d57303a05 ("selftests/mm: add a new test for madv and hugetlb") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/662df57e-47f1-4c15-9b84-f2f2d587fc5c@arm.com/ Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rwxr-xr-xtools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index cc16f6ca853332..00757445278eda 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -223,9 +223,12 @@ CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugepage-mremap
CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugepage-vmemmap
CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugetlb-madvise
+nr_hugepages_tmp=$(cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages)
# For this test, we need one and just one huge page
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./hugetlb_fault_after_madv
+# Restore the previous number of huge pages, since further tests rely on it
+echo "$nr_hugepages_tmp" > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
if test_selected "hugetlb"; then
echo "NOTE: These hugetlb tests provide minimal coverage. Use"