[PATCH v2 12/13] selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category

Sayali Patil sayalip at linux.ibm.com
Thu Mar 12 23:25:39 AEDT 2026


run_vmtests.sh contains special handling to ensure the hwpoison_inject
module is available for the memory-failure tests. This logic was
implemented outside of run_test(), making the setup category-specific
but managed globally.

Move the hwpoison_inject handling into run_test() and restrict it
to the memory-failure category so that:
1. the module is checked and loaded only when memory-failure tests run,
2. the test is skipped if the module or the debugfs interface
(/sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/) is not available.
3. the module is unloaded after the test if it was loaded by the script.

This localizes category-specific setup and makes the test flow
consistent with other per-category preparations.

While updating this logic, fix the module availability check.
The script previously used:

	modprobe -R hwpoison_inject

The -R option prints the resolved module name to stdout, causing every
run to print:

	hwpoison_inject

in the test output, even when no action is required, introducing
unnecessary noise.

Replace this with:

	modprobe -n hwpoison_inject

which verifies that the module is loadable without producing output,
keeping the selftest logs clean and consistent.

Fixes: ff4ef2fbd101 ("selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test")
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip at linux.ibm.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 46 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index eecec0b6eb13..606558cc3b09 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -250,6 +250,27 @@ run_test() {
 			fi
 		fi
 
+		# Ensure hwpoison_inject is available for memory-failure tests
+		if [ "${CATEGORY}" = "memory-failure" ]; then
+			# Try to load hwpoison_inject if not present.
+			HWPOISON_DIR=/sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/
+			if [ ! -d "$HWPOISON_DIR" ]; then
+				if ! modprobe -n hwpoison_inject > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+					echo "Module hwpoison_inject not found, skipping..." \
+						| tap_prefix
+					skip=1
+				else
+					modprobe hwpoison_inject > /dev/null 2>&1
+					LOADED_MOD=1
+				fi
+			fi
+
+			if [ ! -d "$HWPOISON_DIR" ]; then
+				echo "hwpoison debugfs interface not present" | tap_prefix
+				skip=1
+			fi
+		fi
+
 		local test=$(pretty_name "$*")
 		local title="running $*"
 		local sep=$(echo -n "$title" | tr "[:graph:][:space:]" -)
@@ -261,6 +282,12 @@ run_test() {
 		else
 			local ret=$ksft_skip
 		fi
+
+		# Unload hwpoison_inject if we loaded it
+		if [ -n "${LOADED_MOD}" ]; then
+			modprobe -r hwpoison_inject > /dev/null 2>&1
+		fi
+
 		count_total=$(( count_total + 1 ))
 		if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
 			count_pass=$(( count_pass + 1 ))
@@ -540,24 +567,7 @@ CATEGORY="page_frag" run_test ./test_page_frag.sh nonaligned
 
 CATEGORY="rmap" run_test ./rmap
 
-# Try to load hwpoison_inject if not present.
-HWPOISON_DIR=/sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/
-if [ ! -d "$HWPOISON_DIR" ]; then
-	if ! modprobe -q -R hwpoison_inject; then
-		echo "Module hwpoison_inject not found, skipping..."
-	else
-		modprobe hwpoison_inject > /dev/null 2>&1
-		LOADED_MOD=1
-	fi
-fi
-
-if [ -d "$HWPOISON_DIR" ]; then
-	CATEGORY="memory-failure" run_test ./memory-failure
-fi
-
-if [ -n "${LOADED_MOD}" ]; then
-	modprobe -r hwpoison_inject > /dev/null 2>&1
-fi
+CATEGORY="memory-failure" run_test ./memory-failure
 
 if [ "${HAVE_HUGEPAGES}" = 1 ]; then
 	echo "$orig_nr_hugepgs" > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
-- 
2.52.0



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