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authorSayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>2026-05-21 12:17:53 +0530
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-06-21 11:37:35 -0700
commit69ba1d76d93ab818245333cf400928477ba72053 (patch)
tree02248b7e3400f5121a099a835d7c3e7068f636bd /tools
parent90c132f8379b788a0482dbeabc884d3ae5d82205 (diff)
downloadath-69ba1d76d93ab818245333cf400928477ba72053.tar.gz
selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test
Add a comment explaining that every other entry in the list is unmapped to intentionally create fragmentation with locked pages before invoking check_compaction(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/da5e0a8d5152e54152c0d2f456aac2fac35af291.1779296493.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com Fixes: bd67d5c15cc1 ("Test compaction of mlocked memory") Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
index de0633f9a7e50..5b582588e015d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
mem_fragmentable_MB -= MAP_SIZE_MB;
}
+ /* Unmap every other entry in the list to create fragmentation with
+ * locked pages before invoking check_compaction().
+ */
for (entry = list; entry != NULL; entry = entry->next) {
munmap(entry->map, MAP_SIZE);
if (!entry->next)