On Sat, Aug 01, 2026 at 04:12:46AM +0000, Wilson Felipe Pereira wrote:
> test_no_kmem_bypass() needs to read
> /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/stored_pages via get_zswap_stored_pages() to
> verify that compressed pages are charged to the memcg.
> 
> When running in an environment where debugfs is not mounted or
> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled, get_zswap_stored_pages() fails, causing the
> loop to terminate early and report a false negative (KSFT_FAIL).
> 
> Selftests should not fail when if debugfs is unavailable, and it
> should print a message when it is skipped.

Agreed.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Wilson Felipe Pereira <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
> index 49b36ee791606..c4f7b66f1b206 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
> @@ -566,12 +566,19 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const char *root)
>       int child_status;
>       char *test_group = NULL;
>       pid_t child_pid;
> +     size_t stored_pages;
>  
>       /* Read sys info and compute test values accordingly */
>       if (sysinfo(&sys_info) != 0)
>               return KSFT_FAIL;
> -     if (sys_info.totalram > 5000000000)
> +     if (sys_info.totalram > 5000000000) {
> +             ksft_print_msg("requires less than 5000000000 total ram\n");

Agreed - should not silently just skip the test.

>               return KSFT_SKIP;
> +     }
> +     if (get_zswap_stored_pages(&stored_pages)) {
> +             ksft_print_msg("debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug is required\n");

Could the error message here match that in gup_test.c for consistency
and probably later on these could be factored out in a macro constant

ksft_print_msg("mount debugfs at /sys/kernel/debug\n");

> +             return KSFT_SKIP;
> +     }
>       values = mmap(0, sizeof(struct no_kmem_bypass_child_args), PROT_READ |
>                       PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
>       if (values == MAP_FAILED)
> @@ -604,7 +611,6 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const char *root)
>       /* Try to wakeup kswapd and let it push child memory to zswap */
>       set_min_free_kb(min_free_kb_high);
>       for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
> -             size_t stored_pages;
>               char *trigger_allocation = malloc(trigger_allocation_size);
>  
>               if (!trigger_allocation)
> -- 
> 2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog
> 

Otherwise LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]>

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