FAILED: patch "[PATCH] selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success and" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-4.19.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x fb9293b6b0156fbf6ab97a1625d99a29c36d9f0c
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2024061355-send-backwash-9965@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 4.19.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

fb9293b6b015 ("selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success and reduce probability of OOM-killer invocation")
9ad665ef55ea ("selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix incorrect write of zero to nr_hugepages")
d4202e66a4b1 ("selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success on Aarch64")
69e545edbe8b ("selftests/mm: ksft_exit functions do not return")
f3b7568c4942 ("selftests/mm: log a consistent test name for check_compaction")
9c1490d911f8 ("selftests/mm: log skipped compaction test as a skip")
8c9eea721a98 ("selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges")
9a21701edc41 ("selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output")
cb6e7cae1886 ("selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output")
019b277b680f ("selftests: mm: skip whole test instead of failure")
46fd75d4a3c9 ("selftests: mm: add pagemap ioctl tests")
05f1edac8009 ("selftests/mm: run all tests from run_vmtests.sh")
000303329752 ("selftests/mm: make migration test robust to failure")
f6dd4e223d87 ("selftests/mm: skip soft-dirty tests on arm64")
ba91e7e5d15a ("selftests/mm: add tests for HWPOISON hugetlbfs read")
63773d2b593d ("Merge mm-hotfixes-stable into mm-stable to pick up depended-upon changes.")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From fb9293b6b0156fbf6ab97a1625d99a29c36d9f0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 13:13:58 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success and
 reduce probability of OOM-killer invocation

Reset nr_hugepages to zero before the start of the test.

If a non-zero number of hugepages is already set before the start of the
test, the following problems arise:

 - The probability of the test getting OOM-killed increases.  Proof:
   The test wants to run on 80% of available memory to prevent OOM-killing
   (see original code comments).  Let the value of mem_free at the start
   of the test, when nr_hugepages = 0, be x.  In the other case, when
   nr_hugepages > 0, let the memory consumed by hugepages be y.  In the
   former case, the test operates on 0.8 * x of memory.  In the latter,
   the test operates on 0.8 * (x - y) of memory, with y already filled,
   hence, memory consumed is y + 0.8 * (x - y) = 0.8 * x + 0.2 * y > 0.8 *
   x.  Q.E.D

 - The probability of a bogus test success increases.  Proof: Let the
   memory consumed by hugepages be greater than 25% of x, with x and y
   defined as above.  The definition of compaction_index is c_index = (x -
   y)/z where z is the memory consumed by hugepages after trying to
   increase them again.  In check_compaction(), we set the number of
   hugepages to zero, and then increase them back; the probability that
   they will be set back to consume at least y amount of memory again is
   very high (since there is not much delay between the two attempts of
   changing nr_hugepages).  Hence, z >= y > (x/4) (by the 25% assumption).
   Therefore, c_index = (x - y)/z <= (x - y)/y = x/y - 1 < 4 - 1 = 3
   hence, c_index can always be forced to be less than 3, thereby the test
   succeeding always.  Q.E.D

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521074358.675031-4-dev.jain@arm.com
Fixes: bd67d5c15cc1 ("Test compaction of mlocked memory")
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
index 5e9bd1da9370..e140558e6f53 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
@@ -82,13 +82,16 @@ int prereq(void)
 	return -1;
 }
 
-int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size)
+int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size,
+		     unsigned long initial_nr_hugepages)
 {
 	unsigned long nr_hugepages_ul;
 	int fd, ret = -1;
 	int compaction_index = 0;
-	char initial_nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
 	char nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
+	char init_nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
+
+	sprintf(init_nr_hugepages, "%lu", initial_nr_hugepages);
 
 	/* We want to test with 80% of available memory. Else, OOM killer comes
 	   in to play */
@@ -102,23 +105,6 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (read(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, sizeof(initial_nr_hugepages)) <= 0) {
-		ksft_print_msg("Failed to read from /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
-			       strerror(errno));
-		goto close_fd;
-	}
-
-	lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
-
-	/* Start with the initial condition of 0 huge pages*/
-	if (write(fd, "0", sizeof(char)) != sizeof(char)) {
-		ksft_print_msg("Failed to write 0 to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
-			       strerror(errno));
-		goto close_fd;
-	}
-
-	lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
-
 	/* Request a large number of huge pages. The Kernel will allocate
 	   as much as it can */
 	if (write(fd, "100000", (6*sizeof(char))) != (6*sizeof(char))) {
@@ -146,8 +132,8 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size)
 
 	lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
 
-	if (write(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, strlen(initial_nr_hugepages))
-	    != strlen(initial_nr_hugepages)) {
+	if (write(fd, init_nr_hugepages, strlen(init_nr_hugepages))
+	    != strlen(init_nr_hugepages)) {
 		ksft_print_msg("Failed to write value to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
 			       strerror(errno));
 		goto close_fd;
@@ -171,6 +157,41 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int set_zero_hugepages(unsigned long *initial_nr_hugepages)
+{
+	int fd, ret = -1;
+	char nr_hugepages[20] = {0};
+
+	fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages", O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK);
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Failed to open /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
+			       strerror(errno));
+		goto out;
+	}
+	if (read(fd, nr_hugepages, sizeof(nr_hugepages)) <= 0) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Failed to read from /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
+			       strerror(errno));
+		goto close_fd;
+	}
+
+	lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+
+	/* Start with the initial condition of 0 huge pages */
+	if (write(fd, "0", sizeof(char)) != sizeof(char)) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Failed to write 0 to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",
+			       strerror(errno));
+		goto close_fd;
+	}
+
+	*initial_nr_hugepages = strtoul(nr_hugepages, NULL, 10);
+	ret = 0;
+
+ close_fd:
+	close(fd);
+
+ out:
+	return ret;
+}
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
@@ -181,6 +202,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	unsigned long mem_free = 0;
 	unsigned long hugepage_size = 0;
 	long mem_fragmentable_MB = 0;
+	unsigned long initial_nr_hugepages;
 
 	ksft_print_header();
 
@@ -189,6 +211,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	ksft_set_plan(1);
 
+	/* Start the test without hugepages reducing mem_free */
+	if (set_zero_hugepages(&initial_nr_hugepages))
+		ksft_exit_fail();
+
 	lim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY;
 	lim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY;
 	if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, &lim))
@@ -232,7 +258,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		entry = entry->next;
 	}
 
-	if (check_compaction(mem_free, hugepage_size) == 0)
+	if (check_compaction(mem_free, hugepage_size,
+			     initial_nr_hugepages) == 0)
 		ksft_exit_pass();
 
 	ksft_exit_fail();