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From: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sailesh Nandanavanam <saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@linux.dev>,
	David Gow <davidgow@davidgow.net>, SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>,
	damon@lists.linux.dev, kunit-dev@googlegroups.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add KUnit test for walk_control_obsolete behavior
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:55:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260629145538.134832-6-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260629145538.134832-1-sj@kernel.org>

From: Sailesh Nandanavanam <saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com>

Add a KUnit test to verify that damos_walk() rejects
new requests when walk_control_obsolete is set.

Commit 33c3f6c2b48c ("mm/damon/core: fix damos_walk() vs
kdamond_fn() exit race") introduced walk_control_obsolete
to prevent a race condition where new requests could be
registered during kdamond shutdown and never handled.

This test simulates the shutdown condition by setting
walk_control_obsolete and verifies that damos_walk()
returns -ECANCELED immediately.

This validates the invariant introduced by the fix and
helps prevent regressions.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612062337.2459-1-saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com
Suggested-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sailesh Nandanavanam <saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
---
Changes from v3
- v3: https://lore.kernel.org/20260612062337.2459-1-saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com
- Collect R-b: from SJ.
- Rebase to latest mm-new.
Changes since v2
- v2: https://lore.kernel.org/20260524100258.36819-1-saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com
- Dropped the userspace selftest approach entirely. SJ tested
  v2 100 times on a kernel with the fix reverted and it always
  passed, confirming the microsecond-wide race window cannot be
  reliably hit from userspace due to syscall overhead.
- Added a KUnit test for damos_walk() + walk_control_obsolete
  instead, as suggested by SJ. This directly sets the
  obsolete flag and verifies damos_walk() returns -ECANCELED
  immediately, without timing dependency.
Changes since v1
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260524091812.35283-1-saileshnandanavanam@gmail.com
- Addressed sashiko bot review comments (execute bit, threading,
  dynamic sysfs path, OSError handling) - superseded by the v3
  approach above.

 mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
index fcf7c7fadb5fe..c5f5124c3d1f4 100644
--- a/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
+++ b/mm/damon/tests/core-kunit.h
@@ -1456,6 +1456,33 @@ static void damon_test_is_last_region(struct kunit *test)
 	damon_free_target(t);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Verify that damos_walk() rejects new requests when
+ * walk_control_obsolete is set.
+ *
+ * This tests the invariant introduced by:
+ * commit 33c3f6c2b48c ("mm/damon/core: fix damos_walk() vs kdamond_fn() exit race")
+ */
+static void damon_test_walk_control_obsolete(struct kunit *test)
+{
+	struct damon_ctx *ctx;
+	struct damos_walk_control control = {};
+	int ret;
+
+	ctx = damon_new_ctx();
+	if (!ctx)
+		kunit_skip(test, "ctx alloc fail");
+
+	/* Simulate shutdown phase */
+	ctx->walk_control_obsolete = true;
+
+	ret = damos_walk(ctx, &control);
+
+	KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, ret, -ECANCELED);
+
+	damon_destroy_ctx(ctx);
+}
+
 static struct kunit_case damon_test_cases[] = {
 	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_target),
 	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_regions),
@@ -1485,6 +1512,7 @@ static struct kunit_case damon_test_cases[] = {
 	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_set_filters_default_reject),
 	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_apply_min_nr_regions),
 	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_is_last_region),
+	KUNIT_CASE(damon_test_walk_control_obsolete),
 	{},
 };
 
-- 
2.47.3

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-29 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-29 14:55 [PATCH 0/5] mm/damon: five misc fixups SJ Park
2026-06-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/damon/core: use kvmalloc for target regions array SJ Park
2026-06-30  5:57   ` SJ Park
2026-06-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/damon/stat: use secs_to_jiffies() instead of msecs_to_jiffies() SJ Park
2026-06-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 3/5] Docs/{admin-guide,mm}/damon: fix DAMON documentation details SJ Park
2026-06-29 14:55 ` [PATCH 4/5] samples/damon: Fix typos in Kconfig help text SJ Park
2026-06-29 14:55 ` SJ Park [this message]

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