Re: [LTP] [PATCH] fanotify25: fix test failure on kernel with CONFIG_MODULES=n

Martin Doucha
2026-03-03T10:00:20Z

On 3/3/26 10:54, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> how about oom_kill_process()? That one's unconditionally available and
>> shouldn't get called very often in a reasonable test environment either.
>
> Why does it matter how much the function gets called?
> Isn't that irrelevant for the test?

I've written the test to test a specific fanotify regression. Tracing a
syscall that gets called too often could increase system load and change
timing of the race which I'm trying to trigger with it.

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