Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] selftests/arm64: Treat KSM merge_across_nodes as optional

Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 12:18:35PM +0100, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> The MTE KSM test requires write access to KSM sysfs but does not check
> that it is running as root. It also unconditionally saves, enables and
> restores the merge_across_nodes attribute. The kernel only creates this
> attribute when CONFIG_NUMA=y, so a non-NUMA kernel prints the following
> message three times even though every KSM subtest passes:

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
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