Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 4 authors, 2025-08-13

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

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2025-08-05 12:39:25
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

+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?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb
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