tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions

2026-02-12T23:42:59+00:00

Now we have the capability to test the new helpers for the bitmap VMA flags in userland, do so. We also update the Makefile such that both VMA (and while we're here) mm_struct flag sizes can be customised on build. We default to 128-bit to enable testing of flags above word size even on 64-bit systems. We add userland tests to ensure that we do not regress VMA flag behaviour with the introduction when using bitmap VMA flags, nor accidentally introduce unexpected results due to for instance higher bit values not being correctly cleared/set. As part of this change, make __mk_vma_flags() a custom function so we can handle specifying invalid VMA bits. This is purposeful so we can have the VMA tests work at lower and higher number of VMA flags without having to duplicate code too much. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7fe6afe9c8c61e4d3cfc9a2d50a5d24da8528e68.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Damien Le Moal Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files

2026-02-12T23:42:59+00:00

So far the userland VMA tests have been established as a rough expression of what's been possible. Adapt it into a more usable form by separating out tests and shared helper functions. Since we test functions that are declared statically in mm/vma.c, we make use of the trick of #include'ing kernel C files directly. In order for the tests to continue to function, we must therefore also this way into the tests/ directory. We try to keep as much shared logic actually modularised into a separate compilation unit in shared.c, however the merge_existing() and attach_vma() helpers rely on statically declared mm/vma.c functions so these must be declared in main.c. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0455ccfe4fdcd1c962c64f76304f612e5662a4e.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Damien Le Moal Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel/linux.git/tools/testing/vma/tests, branch v7.0-rc7

tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions

tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files