Do not fail the test for just a single instance of migration failure, since migration is a best-effort service. Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c index 6908569ef406..64bcbb7151cf 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ #include <signal.h> #include <time.h> -#define TWOMEG (2<<20) -#define RUNTIME (20) - -#define ALIGN(x, a) (((x) + (a - 1)) & (~((a) - 1))) +#define TWOMEG (2<<20) +#define RUNTIME (20) +#define MAX_RETRIES 100 +#define ALIGN(x, a) (((x) + (a - 1)) & (~((a) - 1))) FIXTURE(migration) { @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ int migrate(uint64_t *ptr, int n1, int n2) int ret, tmp; int status = 0; struct timespec ts1, ts2; + int failures = 0; if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts1)) return -1; @@ -79,13 +80,17 @@ int migrate(uint64_t *ptr, int n1, int n2) ret = move_pages(0, 1, (void **) &ptr, &n2, &status, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL); if (ret) { - if (ret > 0) + if (ret > 0) { + /* Migration is best effort; try again */ + if (++failures < MAX_RETRIES) + continue; printf("Didn't migrate %d pages\n", ret); + } else perror("Couldn't migrate pages"); return -2; } - + failures = 0; tmp = n2; n2 = n1; n1 = tmp; -- 2.30.2