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@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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. Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Mike Kravetz