Make thuge-gen skip instead of fail when it can't run due to system settings. If shmmax is too small or no 1G huge pages are available, the test now prints a warning and is marked as skipped.
Before Patch: ------------------- ~ running ./thuge-gen ------------------- ~ TAP version 13 ~ Bail out! Please do echo 262144 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ~ Totals: pass:0 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0 ~ [FAIL] not ok 28 thuge-gen ~ exit=1 After Patch: ------------------- ~ running ./thuge-gen ------------------- ~ TAP version 13 ~ ~ WARNING: shmmax is too small to run this test. ~ ~ Please run the following command to increase shmmax: ~ ~ echo 262144 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ~ 1..0 ~ SKIP Test skipped due to insufficient shmmax value. ~ [SKIP] ok 29 thuge-gen ~ SKIP Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboor...@linux.ibm.com> --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c index 95b6f043a3cb..cc302a29d485 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/thuge-gen.c @@ -195,13 +195,16 @@ void find_pagesizes(void) } globfree(&g); - if (thuge_read_sysfs(0, "/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax") < NUM_PAGES * largest) - ksft_exit_fail_msg("Please do echo %lu > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax", - largest * NUM_PAGES); + if (thuge_read_sysfs(0, "/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax") < NUM_PAGES * largest) { + ksft_print_msg("WARNING: shmmax is too small to run this test.\n"); + ksft_print_msg("Please run the following command to increase shmmax:\n"); + ksft_print_msg("echo %lu > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax\n", largest * NUM_PAGES); + ksft_exit_skip("Test skipped due to insufficient shmmax value.\n"); + } #if defined(__x86_64__) if (largest != 1U<<30) { - ksft_exit_fail_msg("No GB pages available on x86-64\n" + ksft_exit_skip("No GB pages available on x86-64\n" "Please boot with hugepagesz=1G hugepages=%d\n", NUM_PAGES); } #endif -- 2.43.5