linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: do not require 64GB in set_memory_region

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:49:35 +0800
From:   Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
CC:     Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        <vkuznets@...hat.com>, <wanghaibin.wang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: do not require 64GB in
 set_memory_region_test

On 2021/7/2 0:04, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Unless the user sets overcommit_memory or has plenty of swap, the latest
> changes to the testcase will result in ENOMEM failures for hosts with
> less than 64GB RAM. As we do not use much of the allocated memory, we
> can use MAP_NORESERVE to avoid this error.

Had a go on arm64:

Tested-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>

Thanks,
Zenghui