The patch titled Subject: selftests/mm: cow: print ksft header before printing anything else has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is selftests-mm-cow-print-ksft-header-before-printing-anything-else.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-cow-print-ksft-header-before-printing-anything-else.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: selftests/mm: cow: print ksft header before printing anything else Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:35:58 +0100 Doing a ksft_print_msg() before the ksft_print_header() seems to confuse the ksft framework in a strange way: running the test on the cmdline results in the expected output. But piping the output somewhere else, results in some odd output, whereby we repeatedly get the same info printed: # [INFO] detected THP size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 1048576 KiB # [INFO] huge zeropage is enabled TAP version 13 1..190 # [INFO] Anonymous memory tests in private mappings # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with base page # [INFO] detected THP size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 1048576 KiB # [INFO] huge zeropage is enabled TAP version 13 1..190 # [INFO] Anonymous memory tests in private mappings # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with base page ok 1 No leak from parent into child # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped out base page # [INFO] detected THP size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 1048576 KiB # [INFO] huge zeropage is enabled Doing the ksft_print_header() first seems to resolve that and gives us the output we expect: TAP version 13 # [INFO] detected THP size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 2048 KiB # [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 1048576 KiB # [INFO] huge zeropage is enabled 1..190 # [INFO] Anonymous memory tests in private mappings # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with base page ok 1 No leak from parent into child # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped out base page ok 2 No leak from parent into child # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with THP ok 3 No leak from parent into child # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with swapped-out THP ok 4 No leak from parent into child # [RUN] Basic COW after fork() ... with PTE-mapped THP ok 5 No leak from parent into child Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231206103558.38040-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: f4b5fd6946e2 ("selftests/vm: anon_cow: THP tests") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c~selftests-mm-cow-print-ksft-header-before-printing-anything-else +++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c @@ -1680,6 +1680,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) { int err; + ksft_print_header(); + pagesize = getpagesize(); thpsize = read_pmd_pagesize(); if (thpsize) @@ -1689,7 +1691,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) ARRAY_SIZE(hugetlbsizes)); detect_huge_zeropage(); - ksft_print_header(); ksft_set_plan(ARRAY_SIZE(anon_test_cases) * tests_per_anon_test_case() + ARRAY_SIZE(anon_thp_test_cases) * tests_per_anon_thp_test_case() + ARRAY_SIZE(non_anon_test_cases) * tests_per_non_anon_test_case()); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are selftests-mm-cow-print-ksft-header-before-printing-anything-else.patch