Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Jul 2023 17:15:50 -0400 | From | Peter Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] selftests/mm: add uffd unit test for UFFDIO_POISON |
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 01:50:39PM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote: > The test is pretty basic, and exercises UFFDIO_POISON straightforwardly. > We register a region with userfaultfd, in missing fault mode. For each > fault, we either UFFDIO_COPY a zeroed page (odd pages) or UFFDIO_POISON > (even pages). We do this mix to test "something like a real use case", > where guest memory would be some mix of poisoned and non-poisoned pages. > > We read each page in the region, and assert that the odd pages are > zeroed as expected, and the even pages yield a SIGBUS as expected. > > Why UFFDIO_COPY instead of UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE? Because hugetlb doesn't > support UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE, and we don't want to have special case code. > > Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
-- Peter Xu
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