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Commit f6dd4e22 authored by Ryan Roberts's avatar Ryan Roberts Committed by Andrew Morton
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selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests on arm64



arm64 does not support the soft-dirty PTE bit.  However, the `soft-dirty`
test suite is currently run unconditionally and therefore generates
spurious test failures on arm64.  There are also some tests in
`madv_populate` which assume it is supported.

For `soft-dirty` lets disable the whole suite for arm64; it is no longer
built and run_vmtests.sh will skip it if its not present.

For `madv_populate`, we need a runtime mechanism so that the remaining
tests continue to be run.  Unfortunately, the only way to determine if the
soft-dirty dirty bit is supported is to write to a page, then see if the
bit is set in /proc/self/pagemap.  But the tests that we want to
conditionally execute are testing precicesly this.  So if we introduced
this feature check, we could accedentally turn a real failure (on a system
that claims to support soft-dirty) into a skip.  So instead, do the check
based on architecture; for arm64, we report that soft-dirty is not
supported.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724082522.1202616-3-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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