The write at the end of the test to restore nr_hugepages to its previous value is failing. This is because it is trying to write the number of bytes in the char array as opposed to the number of bytes in the string. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c index 932ff57..00c4f65 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size) printf("No of huge pages allocated = %d\n", (atoi(nr_hugepages))); - if (write(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, sizeof(initial_nr_hugepages)) + if (write(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, strlen(initial_nr_hugepages)) != strlen(initial_nr_hugepages)) { perror("Failed to write to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages\n"); goto close_fd; -- 2.4.11 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html