+ selftests-mm-khugepaged-skip-swap-tests-when-no-swap-available.patch added to mm-new branch

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:38:37 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: khugepaged: skip swap tests when no swap available
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-khugepaged-skip-swap-tests-when-no-swap-available.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-khugepaged-skip-swap-tests-when-no-swap-available.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Subject: selftests/mm: khugepaged: skip swap tests when no swap available
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 14:53:51 +0200

When no swap is configured, swap-related tests fail because
madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) does not swap out pages.  Add a helper function to
detect swap availability and skip these tests.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c~selftests-mm-khugepaged-skip-swap-tests-when-no-swap-available
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -216,6 +216,25 @@ err_out:
 	return swap;
 }
 
+static bool is_swap_available(unsigned long size)
+{
+	unsigned long swap_total = 0;
+	char buffer[256];
+	FILE *fp;
+
+	fp = fopen("/proc/meminfo", "r");
+	if (!fp)
+		return false;
+
+	while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp)) {
+		if (sscanf(buffer, "SwapTotal: %lu kB", &swap_total) == 1)
+			break;
+	}
+	fclose(fp);
+
+	return swap_total >= (size / 1024);
+}
+
 static void *alloc_mapping(int nr)
 {
 	void *p;
@@ -734,6 +753,13 @@ static void collapse_swapin_single_pte(s
 {
 	void *p;
 
+	if (!is_swap_available(page_size)) {
+		ksft_print_msg("No swap available...");
+		skip("Skip");
+		ksft_test_result_skip("%s\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	p = ops->setup_area(1);
 	ops->fault(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
 
@@ -760,6 +786,13 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_swap(struc
 	int max_ptes_swap = thp_read_num("khugepaged/max_ptes_swap");
 	void *p;
 
+	if (!is_swap_available((max_ptes_swap + 1) * page_size)) {
+		ksft_print_msg("No swap available...");
+		skip("Skip");
+		ksft_test_result_skip("%s\n", __func__);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	p = ops->setup_area(1);
 	ops->fault(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-use-proper-pte-accessor-in-move_ptes.patch
selftests-mm-khugepaged-skip-swap-tests-when-no-swap-available.patch