This patch series makes two changes:
- Disable the smart-scan feature for ksm01 - ksm04
This is necessary to make sure that the volatile metrics have the
expected counts.
- Add a new test for the smart-scan feature
The new test verifies that the smart-scan feature skips pages when it has
been enabled for a VMA.
Versions:
- V4:
- no changes to first patch
- Changed header documentation
- Fixed includes
- Renamed create_memory() to verify_ksm(), orignal verify_ksm() has been
removed
- Remove loop in verify_ksm
- Remove wait at the end
- Call madvise at the end of the function
- Remove needs_fork
- V3:
- Disable smart scan for ksm05 and ksm06
- add ksm07 to runtest/mm
- change documentation format in header of ksm07.c
- Move function create_memory_for_smartscan() to ksm07.c
- Rename create_memory_for_smartscan() to create_memory()
- V2:
- Disable smart_scan in the test setup structure
- Remove the changes in create_same_memory()
- Add the new testcase ksm07 for the smart scan test
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Stefan Roesch (2):
mem: disable KSM smart scan for ksm tests
add ksm test for smart-scan feature
runtest/mm | 1 +
testcases/kernel/mem/.gitignore | 1 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm01.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm02.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm03.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm04.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm05.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm06.c | 2 +
testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm07.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 127 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 testcases/kernel/mem/ksm/ksm07.c
base-commit: 8c89ef3d451087ed6e18750bd5eedd10e5ab3d2e
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