Recently we found a bug by trigger a page fault when io-vector of writev is in processing. If do memset between malloc() and write operations, memset will init the pages. So do memset randomly maybe help to cover above situation. Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- ltp/fsstress.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ltp/fsstress.c b/ltp/fsstress.c index 4ff90d5..e1b73e4 100644 --- a/ltp/fsstress.c +++ b/ltp/fsstress.c @@ -1924,7 +1924,8 @@ do_aio_rw(int opno, long r, int flags) off = (off64_t)(lr % MIN(stb.st_size + (1024 * 1024), MAXFSIZE)); off -= (off % align); off %= maxfsize; - memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); + /* randomly memset maybe trigger page fault at write time */ + if (random() / 2) memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); io_prep_pwrite(&iocb, fd, buf, len, off); } else { off = (off64_t)(lr % stb.st_size); @@ -2455,7 +2456,8 @@ dwrite_f(int opno, long r) buf = memalign(diob.d_mem, len); off %= maxfsize; lseek64(fd, off, SEEK_SET); - memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); + /* randomly memset maybe trigger page fault at write time */ + if (random() / 2) memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); e = write(fd, buf, len) < 0 ? errno : 0; free(buf); if (v) @@ -3672,7 +3674,8 @@ write_f(int opno, long r) lseek64(fd, off, SEEK_SET); len = (random() % FILELEN_MAX) + 1; buf = malloc(len); - memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); + /* randomly memset maybe trigger page fault at write time */ + if (random() / 2) memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); e = write(fd, buf, len) < 0 ? errno : 0; free(buf); if (v) @@ -3733,7 +3736,8 @@ writev_f(int opno, long r) lseek64(fd, off, SEEK_SET); len = (random() % FILELEN_MAX) + 1; buf = malloc(len); - memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); + /* randomly memset maybe trigger page fault at write time */ + if (random() / 2) memset(buf, nameseq & 0xff, len); iovcnt = (random() % MIN(len, IOV_MAX)) + 1; iov = malloc(sizeof(struct iovec) * iovcnt); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html