selftests/mm: make the swap cases' swapout reliable

collapse_swapin_single_pte() and collapse_max_ptes_swap() swap a range out
and then require smaps to report exactly the count they asked for.  Two
things keep that count from arriving.

MADV_PAGEOUT is best effort, so the count often turns up a moment late.

And wait_for_scan() leaves the range eligible for collapsing, so
khugepaged is still working on it.  Collapsing reads the swapped-out pages
back in, so the daemon empties the swap as fast as the case fills it.  On
arm64 with 64K pages max_ptes_swap is 1024 pages, which is 64M a step, and
the case loses the race:

    # Swapout 1024 of 8192 pages... Fail
    not ok 10 collapse_max_ptes_swap

Retry for up to two seconds, holding the range out of khugepaged's reach
meanwhile.  The collapse each case runs next restores MADV_HUGEPAGE, so
only the setup is affected.

If the pages still won't swap out, skip: no swap, swap too small or full,
a memcg cap or busy writeback.  None of that is a kernel bug.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260919002451.496763-6-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: "David Hildenbrand (arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan (Samsung OSG) <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 5318f3cfc0d0..13a2a47ab110 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -221,6 +221,29 @@ err_out:
 	return swap;
 }
 
+static bool swapout_range(void *p, unsigned long size)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	/* keep khugepaged from collapsing the range and swapping it back in */
+	if (madvise(p, size, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE))
+		ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE)");
+
+	/*
+	 * Retry several times because MADV_PAGEOUT is best effort.  Sleep
+	 * between the retries to give outstanding writeback a chance to
+	 * finish.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
+		if (madvise(p, size, MADV_PAGEOUT))
+			ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
+		if (check_swap(p, size))
+			return true;
+		usleep(50 * 1000);
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
 static void *alloc_mapping(int nr)
 {
 	void *p;
@@ -828,12 +851,10 @@ static void collapse_swapin_single_pte(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_op
 	ops->fault(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
 
 	ksft_print_msg("Swapout one page...");
-	if (madvise(p, page_size, MADV_PAGEOUT))
-		ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
-	if (check_swap(p, page_size)) {
+	if (swapout_range(p, page_size)) {
 		success("OK");
 	} else {
-		fail("Fail");
+		skip("Could not swap out");
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -854,12 +875,10 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_swap(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *o
 	ops->fault(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
 
 	ksft_print_msg("Swapout %d of %d pages...", max_ptes_swap + 1, hpage_pmd_nr);
-	if (madvise(p, (max_ptes_swap + 1) * page_size, MADV_PAGEOUT))
-		ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
-	if (check_swap(p, (max_ptes_swap + 1) * page_size)) {
+	if (swapout_range(p, (max_ptes_swap + 1) * page_size)) {
 		success("OK");
 	} else {
-		fail("Fail");
+		skip("Could not swap out");
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -871,12 +890,10 @@ static void collapse_max_ptes_swap(struct collapse_context *c, struct mem_ops *o
 		ops->fault(p, 0, hpage_pmd_size);
 		ksft_print_msg("Swapout %d of %d pages...", max_ptes_swap,
 		       hpage_pmd_nr);
-		if (madvise(p, max_ptes_swap * page_size, MADV_PAGEOUT))
-			ksft_exit_fail_perror("madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)");
-		if (check_swap(p, max_ptes_swap * page_size)) {
+		if (swapout_range(p, max_ptes_swap * page_size)) {
 			success("OK");
 		} else {
-			fail("Fail");
+			skip("Could not swap out");
 			goto out;
 		}