From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: William Roche <william.roche@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>, ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [LTP PATCH v1 1/1] syscalls/madvise11: Add some memory page soft-offlining control
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 22:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YvgJUbaAfdO8Gtrh@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1659975072-29808-2-git-send-email-william.roche@oracle.com>
Hi William,
> +/*\
> + * [Description]
> + * Stress the VMM and soft-offline code by spawning N threads which
> + * allocate memory pages and soft-offline them repeatedly.
> + * Control that soft-offlined pages get correctly replaced: with the
> + * same content and without SIGBUS generation when accessed.
> + * Could be used for example as a regression test-case for the
> + * poisoned soft-offlined pages case fixed by upstream commit
> + * d4ae9916ea29 (mm: soft-offline: close the race against page allocation)
d4ae9916ea29 is from v4.19. I haven't found this commit in git log
in stable linux-4.14.y and linux-4.9.y and it cannot be cherry-picked.
I wonder whether it was fixed differently or it endup as not easily fixable.
(4.9 EOL in 4 months, but 4.14 in Jan 2024).
Kind regards,
Petr
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-13 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-08 16:11 [LTP] [LTP PATCH v1 0/1] Add some memory page soft-offlining control William Roche
2022-08-08 16:11 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v1 1/1] syscalls/madvise11: " William Roche
2022-08-10 17:00 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-10 20:18 ` William Roche
2022-08-11 7:34 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-13 19:59 ` Petr Vorel
2022-08-13 20:28 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2022-08-16 9:18 ` Richard Palethorpe
2023-01-27 10:05 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v2 0/1] " william.roche
2023-01-27 10:05 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v2 1/1] madvise11: Add test for memory allocation / Soft-offlining possible race william.roche
2023-02-13 10:00 ` Richard Palethorpe
2023-02-20 10:26 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v3 0/1] Add some memory page soft-offlining control william.roche
2023-02-20 10:26 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v3 1/1] madvise11: Add test for memory allocation / Soft-offlining possible race william.roche
2023-02-27 10:16 ` Richard Palethorpe
2023-02-13 9:34 ` [LTP] [LTP PATCH v2 0/1] Add some memory page soft-offlining control Richard Palethorpe
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