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From: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, yosry@kernel.org, nphamcs@gmail.com,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org, mkoutny@suse.com,
	muchun.song@linux.dev, tj@kernel.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
	shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Cc: longman@redhat.com, liwang@redhat.com,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 6/8] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink on large pagesize system
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:26:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260326032658.96819-7-liwang@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260326032658.96819-1-liwang@redhat.com>

test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink sets up two cgroups: wb_group, which is
expected to trigger zswap writeback, and a control group (renamed to
zw_group), which should only have pages sitting in zswap without any
writeback.

There are two problems with the current test:

1) The data patterns are reversed. wb_group uses allocate_bytes(), which
   writes only a single byte per page — trivially compressible,
   especially by zstd — so compressed pages fit within zswap.max and
   writeback is never triggered. Meanwhile, the control group uses
   getrandom() to produce hard-to-compress data, but it is the group
   that does *not* need writeback.

2) The test uses fixed sizes (10K zswap.max, 10MB allocation) that are
   too small on systems with large PAGE_SIZE (e.g. 64K), failing to
   build enough memory pressure to trigger writeback reliably.

Fix both issues by:
  - Swapping the data patterns: fill wb_group pages with partially
    random data (getrandom for page_size/4 bytes) to resist compression
    and trigger writeback, and fill zw_group pages with simple repeated
    data to stay compressed in zswap.
  - Making all size parameters PAGE_SIZE-aware: set allocation size to
    PAGE_SIZE * 1024, memory.zswap.max to PAGE_SIZE, and memory.max to
    allocation_size / 2 for both cgroups.
  - Allocating memory inline instead of via cg_run() so the pages
    remain resident throughout the test.

=== Error Log ===
 # getconf PAGESIZE
 65536

 # ./test_zswap
 TAP version 13
 ...
 ok 5 test_zswap_writeback_disabled
 ok 6 # SKIP test_no_kmem_bypass
 not ok 7 test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink

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>
---

Notes:
    v5:
        - Swap data patterns: use getrandom() for wb_group and simple
          memset for zw_group to fix the reversed allocation logic.
        - Rename control_group to zw_group for clarity.
        - Allocate memory inline instead of via cg_run() so pages remain
          resident throughout the test.

 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 69 ++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index fc7a9aa27e27..72082e5d4725 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/random.h>
 
 #include "kselftest.h"
 #include "cgroup_util.h"
@@ -424,44 +425,70 @@ static int test_zswap_writeback_disabled(const char *root)
 static int test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink(const char *root)
 {
 	int ret = KSFT_FAIL;
-	size_t control_allocation_size = MB(10);
-	char *control_allocation = NULL, *wb_group = NULL, *control_group = NULL;
+	unsigned int off;
+	size_t allocation_size = page_size * 1024;
+	unsigned int nr_pages = allocation_size / page_size;
+	char zswap_max_buf[32], mem_max_buf[32];
+	char *zw_allocation = NULL, *wb_allocation = NULL;
+	char *zw_group = NULL, *wb_group = NULL;
+
+	snprintf(zswap_max_buf, sizeof(zswap_max_buf), "%zu", page_size);
+	snprintf(mem_max_buf, sizeof(mem_max_buf), "%zu", allocation_size / 2);
 
 	wb_group = setup_test_group_1M(root, "per_memcg_wb_test1");
 	if (!wb_group)
 		return KSFT_FAIL;
-	if (cg_write(wb_group, "memory.zswap.max", "10K"))
+	if (cg_write(wb_group, "memory.zswap.max", zswap_max_buf))
+		goto out;
+	if (cg_write(wb_group, "memory.max", mem_max_buf))
+		goto out;
+
+	zw_group = setup_test_group_1M(root, "per_memcg_wb_test2");
+	if (!zw_group)
 		goto out;
-	control_group = setup_test_group_1M(root, "per_memcg_wb_test2");
-	if (!control_group)
+	if (cg_write(zw_group, "memory.max", mem_max_buf))
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Push some test_group2 memory into zswap */
-	if (cg_enter_current(control_group))
+	/* Push some zw_group memory into zswap (simple data, easy to compress) */
+	if (cg_enter_current(zw_group))
 		goto out;
-	control_allocation = malloc(control_allocation_size);
-	for (int i = 0; i < control_allocation_size; i += page_size)
-		control_allocation[i] = 'a';
-	if (cg_read_key_long(control_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped") < 1)
+	zw_allocation = malloc(allocation_size);
+	for (int i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+		off = (unsigned long)i * page_size;
+		memset(&zw_allocation[off], 'a', page_size/4);
+	}
+	if (cg_read_key_long(zw_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped") < 1)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Allocate 10x memory.max to push wb_group memory into zswap and trigger wb */
-	if (cg_run(wb_group, allocate_bytes, (void *)MB(10)))
+	/* Push wb_group memory into zswap with hard-to-compress data to trigger wb */
+	if (cg_enter_current(wb_group))
+		goto out;
+	wb_allocation = malloc(allocation_size);
+	if (!wb_allocation)
 		goto out;
+	for (int i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+		off = (unsigned long)i * page_size;
+		memset(&wb_allocation[off], 0, page_size);
+		getrandom(&wb_allocation[off], page_size/4, 0);
+	}
 
 	/* Verify that only zswapped memory from gwb_group has been written back */
-	if (get_cg_wb_count(wb_group) > 0 && get_cg_wb_count(control_group) == 0)
+	if (get_cg_wb_count(wb_group) > 0 && get_cg_wb_count(zw_group) == 0)
 		ret = KSFT_PASS;
 out:
 	cg_enter_current(root);
-	if (control_group) {
-		cg_destroy(control_group);
-		free(control_group);
+	if (zw_group) {
+		cg_destroy(zw_group);
+		free(zw_group);
+	}
+	if (wb_group) {
+		cg_destroy(wb_group);
+		free(wb_group);
 	}
-	cg_destroy(wb_group);
-	free(wb_group);
-	if (control_allocation)
-		free(control_allocation);
+	if (zw_allocation)
+		free(zw_allocation);
+	if (wb_allocation)
+		free(wb_allocation);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.53.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-26  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-26  3:26 [PATCH v5 0/8] selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] selftests/cgroup: avoid OOM in test_swapin_nozswap Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] selftests/cgroup: use runtime page size for zswpin check Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] selftests/cgroup: rename PAGE_SIZE to BUF_SIZE in cgroup_util Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] selftests/cgroup: replace hardcoded page size values in test_zswap Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` Li Wang [this message]
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap attempt_writeback() on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-03-26  3:26 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: wait for asynchronous writeback Li Wang
2026-03-26  6:29 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes Li Wang
2026-03-26 23:06   ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-26 23:10     ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-03-27  0:57       ` Li Wang
2026-03-26 23:01 ` Andrew Morton

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