[PATCH v2 07/13] selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugepage-mremap

Sayali Patil sayalip at linux.ibm.com
Thu Mar 12 23:25:34 AEDT 2026


Previously, register_region_with_uffd() created a new anonymous
mapping and overwrote the address supplied by the caller before
registering the range with userfaultfd.

As a result, userfaultfd was applied to an unrelated anonymous mapping
instead of the hugetlb region used by the test.

Remove the extra mmap() and register the caller-provided address range
directly using UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING, so that faults are
generated for the hugetlb mapping used by the test.

This ensures userfaultfd operates on the actual hugetlb test region and
validates the expected fault handling.

Before patch:
 running ./hugepage-mremap
 -------------------------
 TAP version 13
 1..1
  Map haddr: Returned address is 0x7eaa40000000
  Map daddr: Returned address is 0x7daa40000000
  Map vaddr: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
  Address returned by mmap() = 0x7fff9d000000
  Mremap: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
  First hex is 0
  First hex is 3020100
 ok 1 Read same data
 Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
 [PASS]
 ok 1 hugepage-mremap

After patch:
 running ./hugepage-mremap
 -------------------------
 TAP version 13
 1..1
  Map haddr: Returned address is 0x7eaa40000000
  Map daddr: Returned address is 0x7daa40000000
  Map vaddr: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
  Registered memory at address 0x7eaa40000000 with userfaultfd
  Mremap: Returned address is 0x7faa40000000
  First hex is 0
  First hex is 3020100
 ok 1 Read same data
 Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
 [PASS]
 ok 1 hugepage-mremap

Fixes: 12b613206474 ("mm, hugepages: add hugetlb vma mremap() test")
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip at linux.ibm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c | 21 +++++---------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
index b8f7d92e5a35..e611249080d6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugepage-mremap.c
@@ -85,25 +85,14 @@ static void register_region_with_uffd(char *addr, size_t len)
 	if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api) == -1)
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("ioctl-UFFDIO_API: %s\n", strerror(errno));
 
-	/* Create a private anonymous mapping. The memory will be
-	 * demand-zero paged--that is, not yet allocated. When we
-	 * actually touch the memory, it will be allocated via
-	 * the userfaultfd.
-	 */
-
-	addr = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-		    MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
-	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
-		ksft_exit_fail_msg("mmap: %s\n", strerror(errno));
-
-	ksft_print_msg("Address returned by mmap() = %p\n", addr);
-
-	/* Register the memory range of the mapping we just created for
-	 * handling by the userfaultfd object. In mode, we request to track
-	 * missing pages (i.e., pages that have not yet been faulted in).
+	/* Register the passed memory range for handling by the userfaultfd object.
+	 * In mode, we request to track missing pages
+	 * (i.e., pages that have not yet been faulted in).
 	 */
 	if (uffd_register(uffd, addr, len, true, false, false))
 		ksft_exit_fail_msg("ioctl-UFFDIO_REGISTER: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+
+	ksft_print_msg("Registered memory at address %p with userfaultfd\n", addr);
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
-- 
2.52.0



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