From: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rppt@kernel.org, david@kernel.org,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, yosry@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, mhocko@suse.com, shuah@kernel.org,
chengming.zhou@linux.dev, longman@redhat.com, nphamcs@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosryahmed@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 6/8] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink on large pagesize system
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:37:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260402063714.55124-7-liwang@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260402063714.55124-1-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 | 70 ++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index db4889bef6d4..2b14683f9a77 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 +425,71 @@ 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), "%d", 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], 0, 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-02 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 6:37 [PATCH v6 0/8] selftests/cgroup: improve zswap tests robustness and support large page sizes Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] selftests/cgroup: skip test_zswap if zswap is globally disabled Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] selftests/cgroup: avoid OOM in test_swapin_nozswap Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] selftests/cgroup: use runtime page size for zswpin check Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] selftests/cgroup: rename PAGE_SIZE to BUF_SIZE in cgroup_util Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] selftests/cgroup: replace hardcoded page size values in test_zswap Li Wang
2026-04-03 17:16 ` Nhat Pham
2026-04-02 6:37 ` Li Wang [this message]
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] selftest/cgroup: fix zswap attempt_writeback() on 64K pagesize system Li Wang
2026-04-02 6:37 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: wait for asynchronous writeback Li Wang
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