Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Apr 2023 12:16:01 -0400 | From | Peter Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 11/29] selftests/mm: Drop test_uffdio_zeropage_eexist |
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 05:03:17PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote: > On 03/30/23 12:07, Peter Xu wrote: > > The idea was trying to flip this var in the alarm handler from time to time > > to test -EEXIST of UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE, but firstly it's only used in the > > zeropage test so probably only used once, meanwhile we passed > > "retry==false" so it'll never got tested anyway. > > > > Drop both sides so we always test UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE retries if has_zeropage > > is set (!hugetlb). > > > > One more thing to do is doing UFFDIO_REGISTER for the alias buffer too, > > because otherwise the test won't even pass! We were just lucky that this > > test never really got ran at all. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> > > --- > > tools/testing/selftests/mm/userfaultfd.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > Thanks! With only passing "retry==false", that code is indeed dead. I had > to read the code again to understand area_dst_alias. Thanks for taking this > on as the code is difficult to understand.
Yes it's very confusing. I plan to move on the cleanup to remove all these global variables at least in the unit tests, but I'll first see how this one goes.
> > Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Thanks,
-- Peter Xu
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