Hi, linkhuge_rw test case fails on 4.11.0-rc1 kernel.
# HUGETLB_VERBOSE=99 HUGETLB_DEBUG=yes HUGETLB_SHARE=0 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./obj64 HUGETLB_ELFMAP=R ./tests/obj64/linkhuge_rw libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Found pagesize 16384 kB libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Detected page sizes: libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Size: 16384 kB (default) Mount: /dev/hugepages libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Parsed kernel version: [4] . [9] . [0] [pre-release: 6] libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Feature private_reservations is present in this kernel libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Feature noreserve_safe is present in this kernel libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Feature map_hugetlb is present in this kernel libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Kernel has MAP_PRIVATE reservations. Disabling heap prefaulting. libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Kernel supports MAP_HUGETLB libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: HUGETLB_SHARE=0, sharing disabled libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: HUGETLB_NO_RESERVE=no, reservations enabled libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Segment 0 (phdr 2): 0-0x133d4 (filesz=0x133d4) (prot = 0x5) libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: DEBUG: Total memsz = 0x133d4, memsz of largest segment = 0x133d4 libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: libhugetlbfs version: 2.20 (modified) libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8027]: INFO: Mapped hugeseg at 0x3effff000000. Copying 0x133d4 bytes and 0 extra bytes from (nil)...libhugetlbfs [pkvmhab012:8026]: INFO: Prepare succeeded Starting testcase "./tests/obj64/linkhuge_rw", pid 8026 HUGETLB_ELFMAP=R entry: small_data, data: 0x60d20010, writable: 1 entry: small_data, data: 0x60d20010, is_huge: 0 entry: big_data, data: 0x60d10010, writable: 1 entry: big_data, data: 0x60d10010, is_huge: 0 entry: small_bss, data: 0x60d30124, writable: 1 entry: small_bss, data: 0x60d30124, is_huge: 0 entry: big_bss, data: 0x60d20124, writable: 1 entry: big_bss, data: 0x60d20124, is_huge: 0 entry: small_const, data: 0x40d22e2c, writable: 0 entry: small_const, data: 0x40d22e2c, is_huge: 0 entry: big_const, data: 0x40d12e2c, writable: 0 entry: big_const, data: 0x40d12e2c, is_huge: 0 entry: static_func, data: 0x40d11cb0, writable: 0 entry: static_func, data: 0x40d11834, is_huge: 0 entry: global_func, data: 0x40d11c90, writable: 0 entry: global_func, data: 0x40d11834, is_huge: 0 Hugepages used for: FAIL small_const is not hugepage # objdump -p linkhuge_rw linkhuge_rw: file format elf64-powerpcle Program Header: PHDR off 0x0000000000000040 vaddr 0x0000000000000040 paddr 0x0000000000000040 align 2**3 filesz 0x00000000000001c0 memsz 0x00000000000001c0 flags r-x INTERP off 0x0000000000000200 vaddr 0x0000000000000200 paddr 0x0000000000000200 align 2**0 filesz 0x0000000000000011 memsz 0x0000000000000011 flags r-- LOAD off 0x0000000000000000 vaddr 0x0000000000000000 paddr 0x0000000000000000 align 2**28 filesz 0x00000000000133d4 memsz 0x00000000000133d4 flags r-x LOAD off 0x000000000ffffb50 vaddr 0x000000001ffffb50 paddr 0x000000001ffffb50 align 2**28 filesz 0x00000000000105cc memsz 0x00000000000205e0 flags rw- DYNAMIC off 0x000000000ffffb68 vaddr 0x000000001ffffb68 paddr 0x000000001ffffb68 align 2**3 filesz 0x0000000000000260 memsz 0x0000000000000260 flags rw- NOTE off 0x0000000000000214 vaddr 0x0000000000000214 paddr 0x0000000000000214 align 2**2 filesz 0x0000000000000044 memsz 0x0000000000000044 flags r-- STACK off 0x0000000000000000 vaddr 0x0000000000000000 paddr 0x0000000000000000 align 2**4 filesz 0x0000000000000000 memsz 0x0000000000000000 flags rw- RELRO off 0x000000000ffffb50 vaddr 0x000000001ffffb50 paddr 0x000000001ffffb50 align 2**0 filesz 0x00000000000004b0 memsz 0x00000000000004b0 flags r-- # cat /proc/self/maps 10000000-10020000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 87687259 /bin/cat 10020000-10030000 r--p 00010000 08:02 87687259 /bin/cat 10030000-10040000 rw-p 00020000 08:02 87687259 /bin/cat 10020490000-100204c0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 3fffb1fd0000-3fffb2010000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 3fffb2010000-3fffb2340000 r--p 00000000 08:02 154664970 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive 3fffb2340000-3fffb2500000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4325397 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so 3fffb2500000-3fffb2510000 r--p 001b0000 08:02 4325397 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so 3fffb2510000-3fffb2520000 rw-p 001c0000 08:02 4325397 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/libc-2.24.so 3fffb2530000-3fffb2550000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 3fffb2550000-3fffb2590000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4325389 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.24.so 3fffb2590000-3fffb25a0000 r--p 00030000 08:02 4325389 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.24.so 3fffb25a0000-3fffb25b0000 rw-p 00040000 08:02 4325389 /lib/powerpc64le-linux-gnu/ld-2.24.so 3fffe31c0000-3fffe31f0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] -- Regard's Abdul Haleem IBM Linux Technology Centre