On Wed,  8 Jul 2026 12:29:05 +0530 Sayali Patil [off-list ref] wrote:

Some MM selftests attempt to configure the amount of
HugeTLB pages of different sizes by writing to nr_hugepages.

PowerPC hash MMU pSeries systems advertise gigantic hugepage sizes
but do not support runtime allocation of such pages, writes
to the corresponding nr_hugepages file fail with -EINVAL.
This causes the test to bail out even though the failure is due
to a platform limitation rather than the
functionality being tested.

Ignore -EINVAL when configuring nr_hugepages so that tests continue to
run on systems where gigantic hugepage allocation is unsupported.

Before patch:
   -------------------------
   running ./hugetlb-madvise
   -------------------------
   TAP version 13
   1..1
     [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB
     [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB
    ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb
    Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    Bail out! /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB/nr_hugepages
    write(0) failed: Invalid argument
    Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    [FAIL]

After patch:
   -------------------------
   running ./hugetlb-madvise
   -------------------------
   TAP version 13
   1..1
    [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16777216 KiB
    [INFO] detected hugetlb page size: 16384 KiB
   ok 1 MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_REMOVE on hugetlb
   Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
   [PASS]

Fixes: 27477b28b74f ("selftests/mm: hugepage_settings: add APIs to get and set nr_hugepages")
Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <redacted>
---
 .../testing/selftests/mm/hugepage_settings.c  |  2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c          | 26 ++++++++++++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h          |  1 +
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Usama Arif <redacted>