linux/tools/testing/selftests/vm
John Hubbard f3a45709d2 selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency
HMM selftests are incredibly useful, but they are only effective if people
actually build and run them.  All the other tests in selftests/vm can be
built with very standard, always-available libraries: libpthread, librt.
The hmm-tests.c program, on the other hand, requires something that is
(much) less readily available: libhugetlbfs.  And so the build will
typically fail for many developers.

A simple attempt to install libhugetlbfs will also run into complications
on some common distros these days: Fedora and Arch Linux (yes, Arch AUR
has it, but that's fragile, as always with AUR).  The library is not
maintained actively enough at the moment, for distros to deal with it.  I
had to build it from source, for Fedora, and that didn't go too smoothly
either.

It turns out that, out of 21 tests in hmm-tests.c, only 2 actually require
functionality from libhugetlbfs.  Therefore, if libhugetlbfs is missing,
simply ifdef those two tests out and allow the developer to at least have
the other 19 tests, if they don't want to pause to work through the above
issues.  Also issue a warning, so that it's clear that there is an
imperfection in the build.

In order to do that, a tiny shell script (check_config.sh) runs a quick
compile (not link, that's too prone to false failures with library paths),
and basically, if the compiler doesn't find hugetlbfs.h in its standard
locations, then the script concludes that libhugetlbfs is not available.
The output is in two files, one for inclusion in hmm-test.c
(local_config.h), and one for inclusion in the Makefile (local_config.mk).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026064021.3545418-9-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
..
.gitignore selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests 2020-04-02 09:35:32 -07:00
check_config.sh selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
compaction_test.c selftests/vm: 8x compaction_test speedup 2020-10-13 18:38:34 -07:00
config mm/gup_benchmark: rename to mm/gup_test 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
gup_test.c selftests/vm: gup_test: introduce the dump_pages() sub-test 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
hmm-tests.c selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
hugepage-mmap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
hugepage-shm.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
hugetlb_reparenting_test.sh hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests 2020-04-02 09:35:32 -07:00
khugepaged.c khugepaged: selftests: fix timeout condition in wait_for_scan() 2020-06-10 19:14:17 -07:00
Makefile selftests/vm: hmm-tests: remove the libhugetlbfs dependency 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
map_fixed_noreplace.c tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_fixed_noreplace.c: add test for MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE 2018-10-26 16:38:15 -07:00
map_hugetlb.c selftests/vm: fix display of page size in map_hugetlb 2020-09-19 13:13:39 -07:00
map_populate.c tools/testing/selftests/vm/: add MAP_POPULATE test 2018-08-22 10:52:45 -07:00
mlock-random-test.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mlock2-tests.c selftests: vm: drop dependencies on page flags from mlock2 tests 2020-04-02 09:35:31 -07:00
mlock2.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mremap_dontunmap.c tools/testing/selftests/vm: remove duplicate headers 2020-06-04 19:06:27 -07:00
on-fault-limit.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pkey-helpers.h selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce a sub-page allocator 2020-06-04 19:06:27 -07:00
pkey-powerpc.h selftests: vm: pkeys: use the correct page size on powerpc 2020-06-04 19:06:27 -07:00
pkey-x86.h selftests/vm/pkeys: introduce a sub-page allocator 2020-06-04 19:06:27 -07:00
protection_keys.c selftests/vm/keys: fix a broken reference at protection_keys.c 2020-06-26 10:01:12 -06:00
run_vmtests selftests/vm: run_vmtests.sh: update and clean up gup_test invocation 2020-12-15 12:13:38 -08:00
test_hmm.sh mm/hmm/test: add selftests for HMM 2020-05-19 16:48:31 -03:00
test_vmalloc.sh tools: mark 'test_vmalloc.sh' executable 2019-03-11 10:10:29 -07:00
thuge-gen.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
transhuge-stress.c
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: selftests: fix SIGSEGV if huge mmap fails 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
va_128TBswitch.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 485 2019-06-19 17:09:52 +02:00
virtual_address_range.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 191 2019-05-30 11:29:21 -07:00
write_hugetlb_memory.sh hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests 2020-04-02 09:35:32 -07:00
write_to_hugetlbfs.c selftests/vm/write_to_hugetlbfs.c: fix unused variable warning 2020-05-23 10:26:31 -07:00