From: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
To: mkoutny@suse.com, yosryahmed@google.com
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/7] selftests/cgroup: avoid OOM in test_swapin_nozswap
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:06:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312040627.55257-2-liwang@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312040627.55257-1-liwang@redhat.com>
test_swapin_nozswap can hit OOM before reaching its assertions on some
setups. The test currently sets memory.max=8M and then allocates/reads
32M with memory.zswap.max=0, which may over-constrain reclaim and kill
the workload process.
Raise memory.max to 24M so the workload can make forward progress, and
lower the swap_peak expectation from 24M to 8M to keep the check robust
across environments.
The test intent is unchanged: verify that swapping happens while zswap
remains unused when memory.zswap.max=0.
=== Error Logs ===
# ./test_zswap
TAP version 13
1..7
ok 1 test_zswap_usage
not ok 2 test_swapin_nozswap
...
# dmesg
[271641.879153] test_zswap invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[271641.879168] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 177372 Comm: test_zswap Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0-211.el10.ppc64le #1 VOLUNTARY
[271641.879171] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW940.02 (UL940_041) hv:phyp pSeries
[271641.879173] Call Trace:
[271641.879174] [c00000037540f730] [c00000000127ec44] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xc4 (unreliable)
[271641.879184] [c00000037540f760] [c0000000005cc594] dump_header+0x5c/0x1e4
[271641.879188] [c00000037540f7e0] [c0000000005cb464] oom_kill_process+0x324/0x3b0
[271641.879192] [c00000037540f860] [c0000000005cbe48] out_of_memory+0x118/0x420
[271641.879196] [c00000037540f8f0] [c00000000070d8ec] mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x18c/0x1b0
[271641.879200] [c00000037540f990] [c000000000713888] try_charge_memcg+0x598/0x890
[271641.879204] [c00000037540fa70] [c000000000713dbc] charge_memcg+0x5c/0x110
[271641.879207] [c00000037540faa0] [c0000000007159f8] __mem_cgroup_charge+0x48/0x120
[271641.879211] [c00000037540fae0] [c000000000641914] alloc_anon_folio+0x2b4/0x5a0
[271641.879215] [c00000037540fb60] [c000000000641d58] do_anonymous_page+0x158/0x6b0
[271641.879218] [c00000037540fbd0] [c000000000642f8c] __handle_mm_fault+0x4bc/0x910
[271641.879221] [c00000037540fcf0] [c000000000643500] handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x3c0
[271641.879224] [c00000037540fd40] [c00000000014bba0] ___do_page_fault+0x1c0/0x980
[271641.879228] [c00000037540fdf0] [c00000000014c44c] hash__do_page_fault+0x2c/0xc0
[271641.879232] [c00000037540fe20] [c0000000001565d8] do_hash_fault+0x128/0x1d0
[271641.879236] [c00000037540fe50] [c000000000008be0] data_access_common_virt+0x210/0x220
[271641.879548] Tasks state (memory values in pages):
...
[271641.879550] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss rss_anon rss_file rss_shmem pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name
[271641.879555] [ 177372] 0 177372 571 0 0 0 0 51200 96 0 test_zswap
[271641.879562] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/no_zswap_test,task_memcg=/no_zswap_test,task=test_zswap,pid=177372,uid=0
[271641.879578] Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 177372 (test_zswap) total-vm:36544kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:50kB oom_score_adj:0
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index ec64daaa2f5a..8bf5fc34bb23 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int test_swapin_nozswap(const char *root)
goto out;
if (cg_create(test_group))
goto out;
- if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "8M"))
+ if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "24M"))
goto out;
if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.zswap.max", "0"))
goto out;
@@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ static int test_swapin_nozswap(const char *root)
goto out;
}
- if (swap_peak < MB(24)) {
- ksft_print_msg("at least 24MB of memory should be swapped out\n");
+ if (swap_peak < MB(8)) {
+ ksft_print_msg("at least 8MB of memory should be swapped out\n");
goto out;
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 4:06 [PATCH v2 1/7] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` Li Wang [this message]
2026-03-12 22:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] selftests/cgroup: avoid OOM in test_swapin_nozswap Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] selftests/cgroup: use runtime page size for zswpin check Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] selftests/cgroup: rename PAGE_SIZE to BUF_SIZE in cgroup_util Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] selftests/cgroup: replace hardcoded page size values in test_zswap Li Wang
2026-03-12 22:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 2:01 ` Li Wang
2026-03-12 4:06 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap attempt_writeback() on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-03-12 22:44 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-12 18:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Nhat Pham
2026-03-12 21:09 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 1:50 ` Li Wang
2026-03-13 2:58 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-13 3:23 ` Li Wang
2026-03-13 3:35 ` Li Wang
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