Re: [PATCH] proc: fixup map_files test on arm

From: Rafael David Tinoco
Date: Mon Nov 12 2018 - 11:35:46 EST


On 11/12/18 1:55 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 05:14:57PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
...
int main(void)
{
const unsigned int PAGE_SIZE = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+#ifdef __arm__
+ unsigned long va = 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
+#else
+ unsigned long va = 0;
+#endif
...

I have sent a patch removing proc-self-map-files-002 AND making 001 to use as a
HINT for mmap (MAP_FIXED) *at least* *(2 * PAGE_SIZE), which would, likely,
attend all architectures, avoiding trying to make the test specific to one,
and, still, test the symlinks for issues (like bad chars, spaces, so on).

If the goal is to test the lowest address then going for 2*PAGE_SIZE is
a mistake.

Which BTW hints to add a test for the highest address.

Both tests (001 and 002) have pretty much the same code, while they could have 2
tests in a single code, using kselftest framework. Is NULL hint + MAP_FIXED
something imperative for this test ? Why not to have all in a single test ?

I dislike tests which lump everything together into one process.

Are you keeping the NULL hint just to test mmap, apart" from the core of
this test ?

Guys, lets simply stick with Alexey's patch. I personnally think that
testing mappings should be a separate test in vm/, but seriously this
took too long already :) If Alexey's patch fixes the problem with arm
I think we're fine.


Fine for me. It works in armhf.

Tested-by: Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@xxxxxxxxxx>

Note: Maybe you should amend the patch and cast "va" in mmap() to avoid:

In file included from proc-self-map-files-002.c:7:
/usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/sys/mman.h:57:14: note: expected âvoid *â but argument is of type âlong unsigned intâ
extern void *mmap (void *__addr, size_t __len, int __prot,

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Rafael D. Tinoco
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