On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:53:24AM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote: > @@ -2022,7 +2023,19 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(iommufd_dirty_tracking) > self->fd = open("/dev/iommu", O_RDWR); > ASSERT_NE(-1, self->fd); > > - rc = posix_memalign(&self->buffer, HUGEPAGE_SIZE, > variant->buffer_size); > + if (variant->hugepages) { > + /* > + * Allocation must be aligned to the HUGEPAGE_SIZE, because > the > + * following mmap() will automatically align the length to be > a > + * multiple of the underlying huge page size. Failing to do > the > + * same at this allocation will result in a memory overwrite > by > + * the mmap(). > + */ > + size = __ALIGN_KERNEL(variant->buffer_size, HUGEPAGE_SIZE); > + } else { > + size = variant->buffer_size; > + } > + rc = posix_memalign(&self->buffer, HUGEPAGE_SIZE, size); > if (rc || !self->buffer) { > SKIP(return, "Skipping buffer_size=%lu due to errno=%d", > variant->buffer_size, rc); > > It can just upsize the allocation, i.e. the test case will only > use the first 64M or 128MB out of the reserved 512MB huge page.
The MAP_HUGETLBFS is required that is the whole point of what it is doing.. Jason