Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] selftests/mm: Skip hugepage-mremap test if userfaultfd unavailable

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Jul 03 2025 - 04:40:25 EST


On 03.07.25 08:06, Aboorva Devarajan wrote:
Gracefully skip test if userfaultfd is not supported (ENOSYS) or not
permitted (EPERM), instead of failing. This avoids misleading failures
with clear skip messages.
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Before Patch
--------------
~ running ./hugepage-mremap
...
~ Bail out! userfaultfd: Function not implemented
~ Planned tests != run tests (1 != 0)
~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
~ [FAIL]
not ok 4 hugepage-mremap # exit=1

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After Patch
--------------
~ running ./hugepage-mremap
...
~ ok 2 # SKIP userfaultfd is not supported/not enabled.
~ 1 skipped test(s) detected.
~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0
~ [SKIP]
ok 4 hugepage-mremap # SKIP

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
index c463d1c09c9b..1a0e6dd87578 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
@@ -65,10 +65,20 @@ static void register_region_with_uffd(char *addr, size_t len)
struct uffdio_api uffdio_api;
/* Create and enable userfaultfd object. */
-
uffd = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd, O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK);
- if (uffd == -1)
- ksft_exit_fail_msg("userfaultfd: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ if (uffd == -1) {
+ switch (errno) {
+ case EPERM:
+ ksft_exit_skip("No userfaultfd permissions, try running as root.\n");

"Insufficient permissions, try ..." ?

+ break;
+ case ENOSYS:
+ ksft_exit_skip("userfaultfd is not supported/not enabled.\n");
+ break;

Note that we have in tools/testing/selftests/mm/config

CONFIG_USERFAULTFD=y

But I don't have anything about making the test more versatile.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb