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Patch series "selftests/vm: test COW handling of anonymous memory". This is my current set of tests for testing COW handling of anonymous memory, especially when interacting with GUP. I developed these tests while working on PageAnonExclusive and managed to clean them up just now. On current upstream Linux, all tests pass except the hugetlb tests that rely on vmsplice -- these tests should pass as soon as vmsplice properly uses FOLL_PIN instead of FOLL_GET. I'm working on additional tests for COW handling in private mappings, focusing on long-term R/O pinning e.g., of the shared zeropage, pagecache pages and KSM pages. These tests, however, will go into a different file. So this is everything I have regarding tests for anonymous memory. This patch (of 7): Let's start adding tests for our COW handling of anonymous memory. We'll focus on basic tests that we can achieve without additional libraries or gup_test extensions. We'll add THP and hugetlb tests separately. [david@redhat.com: s/size_t/ssize_t/ on `cur', `total', `transferred';] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/51302b9e-dc69-d709-3214-f23868028555@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927110120.106906-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927110120.106906-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com> Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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