It's not really possible to start diagnosing this without knowing the actual error. Also update the mlock2 helper to behave like libc would by setting errno and returning -1. Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock-random-test.c | 4 ++-- tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2.h | 8 +++++++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock-random-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock-random-test.c index 1cd80b0f76c33f04ef01f4dee6602f28b6a7c991..b8d7e966f44c67e5606d384bd660e5a4e5e8fda9 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock-random-test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock-random-test.c @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ static void test_mlock_within_limit(char *p, int alloc_size) MLOCK_ONFAULT); if (ret) - ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s() failure at |%p(%d)| mlock:|%p(%d)|\n", + ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s() failure (%s) at |%p(%d)| mlock:|%p(%d)|\n", is_mlock ? "mlock" : "mlock2", - p, alloc_size, + strerror(errno), p, alloc_size, p + start_offset, lock_size); } diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2.h b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2.h index 4417eaa5cfb78ba2bb0f51d3418c9b768ff0fe90..81e77fa41901a095cc041e05d01da7dffbf2f4fe 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2.h +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/mlock2.h @@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ static int mlock2_(void *start, size_t len, int flags) { - return syscall(__NR_mlock2, start, len, flags); + int ret = syscall(__NR_mlock2, start, len, flags); + + if (ret) { + errno = ret; + return -1; + } + return 0; } static FILE *seek_to_smaps_entry(unsigned long addr) -- 2.49.0.rc0.332.g42c0ae87b1-goog