Re: [PATCH v4 00/55] make MM selftests more CI friendly

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 11 May 2026 19:27:44 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's a lot of dancing around HugeTLB settings in run_vmtests.sh.
> Some test need just a few default huge pages, some require at least 256 MB, and
> some just skip lots of tests if huge pages of all supported sizes are not
> available.
> 
> The goal of this set is to make tests deal with HugeTLB setup and teardown.
> 
> There are already convenient helpers that allow easy reading and writing of
> /proc and /sysfs, so adding a few APIs that will detect and update HugeTLB
> settings shouldn't be a big deal. But these nice helpers use kselftest
> framework, and many of HugeTLB (and even THP) test don't, so as a result this
> patchset also includes a lot of churn for conversion of those tests to
> kselftest framework (patches 7-19).
> 
> @Andrew, I think it's good to go now.

OK, thanks, I've added this to mm-new.

> I'm sure Sashiko will still have somehting to say, but there is really a lot of
> room for imporvement in our selftests and with Sashiko being overly pedantic
> we'd be stuck forever.

Fair enough ;)