+ selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Subject: selftests: cgroup: make sure reclaim target memcg is unprotected
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 03:15:12 +0000

Make sure that we ignore protection of a memcg that is the target of memcg
reclaim.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221202031512.1365483-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@linux.dev>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c~selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c
@@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ static int cg_test_proc_killed(const cha
 	return -1;
 }
 
+static bool reclaim_until(const char *memcg, long goal);
+
 /*
  * First, this test creates the following hierarchy:
  * A       memory.min = 0,    memory.max = 200M
@@ -266,6 +268,12 @@ static int cg_test_proc_killed(const cha
  * unprotected memory in A available, and checks that:
  * a) memory.min protects pagecache even in this case,
  * b) memory.low allows reclaiming page cache with low events.
+ *
+ * Then we try to reclaim from A/B/C using memory.reclaim until its
+ * usage reaches 10M.
+ * This makes sure that:
+ * (a) We ignore the protection of the reclaim target memcg.
+ * (b) The previously calculated emin value (~29M) should be dismissed.
  */
 static int test_memcg_protection(const char *root, bool min)
 {
@@ -385,6 +393,9 @@ static int test_memcg_protection(const c
 	if (!values_close(cg_read_long(parent[1], "memory.current"), MB(50), 3))
 		goto cleanup;
 
+	if (!reclaim_until(children[0], MB(10)))
+		goto cleanup;
+
 	if (min) {
 		ret = KSFT_PASS;
 		goto cleanup;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from yosryahmed@google.com are

mm-memcg-fix-stale-protection-of-reclaim-target-memcg.patch
selftests-cgroup-refactor-proactive-reclaim-code-to-reclaim_until.patch
selftests-cgroup-make-sure-reclaim-target-memcg-is-unprotected.patch