This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/mm: ksm_tests should only MADV_HUGEPAGE valid memory
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-ksm_tests-should-only-madv_hugepage-valid-memory.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.
>From d021b442cf312664811783e92b3d5e4548e92a53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:05:54 +0000
Subject: selftests/mm: ksm_tests should only MADV_HUGEPAGE valid memory
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
commit d021b442cf312664811783e92b3d5e4548e92a53 upstream.
ksm_tests was previously mmapping a region of memory, aligning the
returned pointer to a PMD boundary, then setting MADV_HUGEPAGE, but was
setting it past the end of the mmapped area due to not taking the pointer
alignment into consideration. Fix this behaviour.
Up until commit efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
boundaries"), this buggy behavior was (usually) masked because the
alignment difference was always less than PMD-size. But since the
mentioned commit, `ksm_tests -H -s 100` started failing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240122120554.3108022-1-ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx
Fixes: 325254899684 ("selftests: vm: add KSM huge pages merging time test")
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_tests.c
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int ksm_merge_hugepages_time(int
if (map_ptr_orig == MAP_FAILED)
err(2, "initial mmap");
- if (madvise(map_ptr, len + HPAGE_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE))
+ if (madvise(map_ptr, len, MADV_HUGEPAGE))
err(2, "MADV_HUGEPAGE");
pagemap_fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx are
queue-6.6/selftests-mm-ksm_tests-should-only-madv_hugepage-valid-memory.patch
