[PATCH 0/2] Fixes for compaction_test

Dev Jain
2024-05-15T09:37:00Z

The compaction_test memory selftest introduces fragmentation in memory
and then tries to allocate as many hugepages as possible. This series
addresses some problems.

First off, correctly set the number of hugepages to zero before trying
to set a large number of them.

Now, consider a situation in which, at the start of the test, a non-zero
number of hugepages have been already set (while running the entire
selftests/mm suite, or manually by the admin). The test operates on 80%
of memory to avoid OOM-killer invocation, and because some memory is
already blocked by hugepages, it would increase the chance of OOM-killing.
Also, since mem_free used in check_compaction() is the value before we
set nr_hugepages to zero, the chance that the compaction_index will
be small is very high if the preset nr_hugepages was high, leading to a
bogus test success.

This series applies on top of the stable 6.9 kernel.

Dev Jain (2):
selftests/mm: compaction_test: Fix incorrect write of zero to
nr_hugepages
selftests/mm: compaction_test: Fix trivial test success and reduce
probability of OOM-killer invocation

tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c | 70 ++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

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