This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success on Aarch64
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selftests-mm-compaction_test-fix-bogus-test-success-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 448bd11b77ad8b8520508415817b5f31c21f5d61
Author: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 21 13:13:56 2024 +0530
selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success on Aarch64
[ Upstream commit d4202e66a4b1fe6968f17f9f09bbc30d08f028a1 ]
Patch series "Fixes for compaction_test", v2.
The compaction_test memory selftest introduces fragmentation in memory
and then tries to allocate as many hugepages as possible. This series
addresses some problems.
On Aarch64, if nr_hugepages == 0, then the test trivially succeeds since
compaction_index becomes 0, which is less than 3, due to no division by
zero exception being raised. We fix that by checking for division by
zero.
Secondly, correctly set the number of hugepages to zero before trying
to set a large number of them.
Now, consider a situation in which, at the start of the test, a non-zero
number of hugepages have been already set (while running the entire
selftests/mm suite, or manually by the admin). The test operates on 80%
of memory to avoid OOM-killer invocation, and because some memory is
already blocked by hugepages, it would increase the chance of OOM-killing.
Also, since mem_free used in check_compaction() is the value before we
set nr_hugepages to zero, the chance that the compaction_index will
be small is very high if the preset nr_hugepages was high, leading to a
bogus test success.
This patch (of 3):
Currently, if at runtime we are not able to allocate a huge page, the test
will trivially pass on Aarch64 due to no exception being raised on
division by zero while computing compaction_index. Fix that by checking
for nr_hugepages == 0. Anyways, in general, avoid a division by zero by
exiting the program beforehand. While at it, fix a typo, and handle the
case where the number of hugepages may overflow an integer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521074358.675031-1-dev.jain@xxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521074358.675031-2-dev.jain@xxxxxxx
Fixes: bd67d5c15cc1 ("Test compaction of mlocked memory")
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
index 6be4b70a26592..b5587a751664a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
@@ -81,12 +81,13 @@ int prereq(void)
return -1;
}
-int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size)
+int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size)
{
+ unsigned long nr_hugepages_ul;
int fd, ret = -1;
int compaction_index = 0;
- char initial_nr_hugepages[10] = {0};
- char nr_hugepages[10] = {0};
+ char initial_nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
+ char nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
/* We want to test with 80% of available memory. Else, OOM killer comes
in to play */
@@ -135,7 +136,12 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size)
/* We should have been able to request at least 1/3 rd of the memory in
huge pages */
- compaction_index = mem_free/(atoi(nr_hugepages) * hugepage_size);
+ nr_hugepages_ul = strtoul(nr_hugepages, NULL, 10);
+ if (!nr_hugepages_ul) {
+ ksft_print_msg("ERROR: No memory is available as huge pages\n");
+ goto close_fd;
+ }
+ compaction_index = mem_free/(nr_hugepages_ul * hugepage_size);
lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
@@ -146,11 +152,11 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size)
goto close_fd;
}
- ksft_print_msg("Number of huge pages allocated = %d\n",
- atoi(nr_hugepages));
+ ksft_print_msg("Number of huge pages allocated = %lu\n",
+ nr_hugepages_ul);
if (compaction_index > 3) {
- ksft_print_msg("ERROR: Less that 1/%d of memory is available\n"
+ ksft_print_msg("ERROR: Less than 1/%d of memory is available\n"
"as huge pages\n", compaction_index);
goto close_fd;
}
