esOn Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:58:38PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
>
> On 16/06/25 9:36 pm, Aboorva Devarajan wrote:
> > From: Donet Tom <donet...@linux.ibm.com>
> >
> > execv argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings.
> > In this patch we added NULL in the execv argument to fix the test
> > failure.
>
> Just a comment, how did this test suddenly start failing now? Also is a
> fixes tag required? Clearly I am missing something.
>
This test has been failing on my machine since the version in which
it was introduced.
Will add the fixes-by tag in next version.
Below is the test result on 0374af1da077- mm/ksm: test case for prctl fork/exec
workflow
./ksm_functional_tests
TAP version 13
1..9
[RUN] test_unmerge
ok 1 Pages were unmerged
[RUN] test_unmerge_zero_pages
ok 2 KSM zero pages were unmerged
[RUN] test_unmerge_discarded
ok 3 Pages were unmerged
[RUN] test_unmerge_uffd_wp
ok 4 # SKIP UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP not available
[RUN] test_prot_none
ok 5 Pages were unmerged
[RUN] test_prctl
ok 6 Setting/clearing PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE works
[RUN] test_prctl_fork
ok 7 PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE value is inherited
[RUN] test_prctl_fork_exec
[RUN] test_prctl_unmerge
not ok 8 No pages got merged
Bail out! 1 out of 8 tests failed
Planned tests != run tests (9 != 8)
Totals: pass:6 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0
not ok 8 KSM not enabled
[RUN] test_prctl_unmerge
ok 9 Pages were unmerged
Bail out! 1 out of 9 tests failed
Totals: pass:7 fail:1 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:1 error:0
With the above patch the test is passing.
[RUN] test_prctl_fork_exec
ok 8 PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE value is inherited
> > Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donet...@linux.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboor...@linux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> > index d7d3c22c077a..6ea50272a0ba 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> > @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static void test_prctl_fork_exec(void)
> > return;
> > } else if (child_pid == 0) {
> > char *prg_name = "./ksm_functional_tests";
> > - char *argv_for_program[] = { prg_name, FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME
> > };
> > + char *argv_for_program[] = { prg_name,
> > FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME, NULL };
> > execv(prg_name, argv_for_program);
> > return;
>
