From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: jiayuan.chen@linux.dev, "Jiayuan Chen" <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>, "SeongJae Park" <sj@kernel.org>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>,
"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH mm-new v3 2/2] selftests/cgroup: add test for zswap incompressible pages
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:18:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260213071827.5688-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260213071827.5688-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Add test_zswap_incompressible() to verify that the zswap_incomp memcg
stat correctly tracks incompressible pages.
The test allocates memory filled with random data from /dev/urandom,
which cannot be effectively compressed by zswap. When this data is
swapped out to zswap, it should be stored as-is and tracked by the
zswap_incomp counter.
The test verifies that:
1. Pages are swapped out to zswap (zswpout increases)
2. Incompressible pages are tracked (zswap_incomp increases)
test:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
echo Y > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
./test_zswap
TAP version 13
1..8
ok 1 test_zswap_usage
ok 2 test_swapin_nozswap
ok 3 test_zswapin
ok 4 test_zswap_writeback_enabled
ok 5 test_zswap_writeback_disabled
ok 6 test_no_kmem_bypass
ok 7 test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink
ok 8 test_zswap_incompressible
Totals: pass:8 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 136 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index 64ebc3f3f203..a7bdcdd09d62 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
@@ -574,6 +576,139 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const char *root)
return ret;
}
+struct incomp_child_args {
+ size_t size;
+ int pipefd[2];
+ int madvise_ret;
+ int madvise_errno;
+};
+
+static int allocate_random_and_wait(const char *cgroup, void *arg)
+{
+ struct incomp_child_args *values = arg;
+ size_t size = values->size;
+ char *mem;
+ int fd;
+ ssize_t n;
+
+ close(values->pipefd[0]);
+
+ mem = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+ if (mem == MAP_FAILED)
+ return -1;
+
+ /* Fill with random data from /dev/urandom - incompressible */
+ fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ munmap(mem, size);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ) {
+ n = read(fd, mem + i, size - i);
+ if (n <= 0)
+ break;
+ i += n;
+ }
+ close(fd);
+
+ /* Touch all pages to ensure they're faulted in */
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < size; i += PAGE_SIZE)
+ mem[i] = mem[i];
+
+ /* Use MADV_PAGEOUT to push pages into zswap */
+ values->madvise_ret = madvise(mem, size, MADV_PAGEOUT);
+ values->madvise_errno = errno;
+
+ /* Notify parent that allocation and pageout are done */
+ write(values->pipefd[1], "x", 1);
+ close(values->pipefd[1]);
+
+ /* Keep memory alive for parent to check stats */
+ pause();
+ munmap(mem, size);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static long get_zswap_incomp(const char *cgroup)
+{
+ return cg_read_key_long(cgroup, "memory.stat", "zswap_incomp ");
+}
+
+/*
+ * Test that incompressible pages (random data) are tracked by zswap_incomp.
+ *
+ * The child process allocates random data within memory.max, then uses
+ * MADV_PAGEOUT to push pages into zswap. The parent waits on a pipe for
+ * the child to finish, then checks the zswap_incomp stat before the child
+ * exits (zswap_incomp is a gauge that decreases on free).
+ */
+static int test_zswap_incompressible(const char *root)
+{
+ int ret = KSFT_FAIL;
+ struct incomp_child_args *values;
+ char *test_group;
+ long zswap_incomp;
+ pid_t child_pid;
+ int child_status;
+ char buf;
+
+ values = mmap(0, sizeof(struct incomp_child_args), PROT_READ |
+ PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+ if (values == MAP_FAILED)
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
+
+ if (pipe(values->pipefd)) {
+ munmap(values, sizeof(struct incomp_child_args));
+ return KSFT_FAIL;
+ }
+
+ test_group = cg_name(root, "zswap_incompressible_test");
+ if (!test_group)
+ goto out;
+ if (cg_create(test_group))
+ goto out;
+ if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "32M"))
+ goto out;
+
+ values->size = MB(4);
+ child_pid = cg_run_nowait(test_group, allocate_random_and_wait, values);
+ if (child_pid < 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ close(values->pipefd[1]);
+
+ /* Wait for child to finish allocating and pageout */
+ read(values->pipefd[0], &buf, 1);
+ close(values->pipefd[0]);
+
+ zswap_incomp = get_zswap_incomp(test_group);
+ if (zswap_incomp <= 0) {
+ long zswpout = get_zswpout(test_group);
+ long zswapped = cg_read_key_long(test_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped ");
+ long zswap_b = cg_read_key_long(test_group, "memory.stat", "zswap ");
+
+ ksft_print_msg("zswap_incomp not increased: %ld\n", zswap_incomp);
+ ksft_print_msg("debug: zswpout=%ld zswapped=%ld zswap_b=%ld\n",
+ zswpout, zswapped, zswap_b);
+ ksft_print_msg("debug: madvise ret=%d errno=%d\n",
+ values->madvise_ret, values->madvise_errno);
+ goto out_kill;
+ }
+
+ ret = KSFT_PASS;
+
+out_kill:
+ kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
+ waitpid(child_pid, &child_status, 0);
+out:
+ cg_destroy(test_group);
+ free(test_group);
+ munmap(values, sizeof(struct incomp_child_args));
+ return ret;
+}
+
#define T(x) { x, #x }
struct zswap_test {
int (*fn)(const char *root);
@@ -586,6 +721,7 @@ struct zswap_test {
T(test_zswap_writeback_disabled),
T(test_no_kmem_bypass),
T(test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink),
+ T(test_zswap_incompressible),
};
#undef T
--
2.43.0
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2026-02-13 7:18 [PATCH mm-new v3 0/2] mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages Jiayuan Chen
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