On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, Ricardo Koller wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:06:23PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, Ricardo Koller wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 07:32:42PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, Ricardo Koller wrote:
> > > > > +     void *hva = (void *)region->region.userspace_addr;
> > > > > +     uint64_t paging_size = region->region.memory_size;
> > > > > +     int ret, fd = region->fd;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +     if (fd != -1) {
> > > > > +             ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | 
> > > > > FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
> > > > > +                             0, paging_size);
> > > > > +             TEST_ASSERT(ret == 0, "fallocate failed, errno: %d\n", 
> > > > > errno);
> > > > > +     } else {
> > > > > +             if (is_backing_src_hugetlb(region->backing_src_type))
> > > > > +                     return false;
> > > > 
> > > > Why is hugetlb disallowed?  I thought anon hugetlb supports 
> > > > MADV_DONTNEED?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It fails with EINVAL (only tried on arm) for both the PAGE_SIZE and the 
> > > huge
> > > page size. And note that the address is aligned as well.
> > > 
> > > madvise(0xffffb7c00000, 2097152, MADV_DONTNEED) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
> > > argument)
> > >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^
> > >   2M aligned      2M (hugepage size)
> > >                   
> > > madvise(0xffff9e800000, 4096, MADV_DONTNEED) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid 
> > > argument)   
> > >                   ^^^^
> > >                   PAGE_SIZE
> > 
> > I think this needs to be root caused before merging.  Unless I'm getting 
> > turned
> > around, MADV_DONTEED should work, i.e. there is a test bug lurking 
> > somewhere.
> 
> Turns out that the failure is documented. Found this in the madvise manpage:
> 
>   MADV_DONTNEED cannot be applied to locked pages, Huge TLB pages, or 
> VM_PFNMAP pages.

The manpages are stale:

   c4b6cb884011 ("selftests/vm: add hugetlb madvise MADV_DONTNEED MADV_REMOVE 
test")
   90e7e7f5ef3f ("mm: enable MADV_DONTNEED for hugetlb mappings")

The tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugetlb-madvise.c selftest effectively tests what
is being done here, so _something_ is broken.
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