Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] selftests: prctl: introduce tests for disabling THPs completely

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On 05.08.25 14:46, Usama Arif wrote:


On 05/08/2025 13:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:
+FIXTURE_SETUP(prctl_thp_disable_completely)
+{
+    if (!thp_available())
+        SKIP(return, "Transparent Hugepages not available\n");
+
+    self->pmdsize = read_pmd_pagesize();
+    if (!self->pmdsize)
+        SKIP(return, "Unable to read PMD size\n");
+
+    thp_save_settings();
+    thp_read_settings(&self->settings);
+    self->settings.thp_enabled = variant->thp_policy;
+    self->settings.hugepages[sz2ord(self->pmdsize, getpagesize())].enabled = THP_INHERIT;

Oh, one more thing: should we set all other sizes also to THP_INHERIT or (for simplicity) THP_NEVER?


hmm do we need to? I am hoping that we should always get the PMD size THP no matter what the policy
for others is in the scenario we have?

Assuming 64K is set to "always", couldn't it mislead us in the "madvise"/"never" test cases in some scenarios?

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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