Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Don't needlessly use sudo to obtain root in run_vmtests.sh

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 08:32:58AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 10/02/2024 12:35, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Ah, I was assuming that some of the suite ran usefully as non-root given
> > that the only point of that sudo was to acquire root.  If the whole
> > thing needs to be root then we should instead have a check for root at
> > the top of run_vmtests.sh and just skip the whole thing if we aren't
> > root, but then I'm unclear why it's invoking sudo in the first place.

> I can't speak for how others use the suite, but there are a bunch of setup
> operations in the script itself that require root (e.g. reserving huge pages).
> Some of the tests will work without root, I'm sure, but I'm not sure its hugely
> valuable. Personally, I'd vote for just doing a test for root at the top, as you
> suggest.

The hugetlb tests appear to be checking for root while running...  I'm
not super fussed either way myself, I don't really use these tests
myself except in a general "keeping an eye on CI" kind of way so I'd not
object if people wanted to just go for just requiring root for the whole
thing.

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