This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests/mm: cow: print ksft header before printing anything else to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-mm-cow-print-ksft-header-before-printing-a.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a90c3c7bc1713f0515c3bfa7dc9fbb5ca31fa72b Author: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Dec 6 11:35:58 2023 +0100 selftests/mm: cow: print ksft header before printing anything else [ Upstream commit a6fcd57cf2df409d35e9225b8dbad6f937b28df0 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c index 7324ce5363c0c..6f2f839904416 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c +++ b/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());