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Message-ID: <2e5baba4-c8ef-9da4-a2d6-3cf383ed05bd@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:49:12 +0100
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>,
Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] selftests/mm: Make migration test robust to
failure
On 17/07/2023 18:40, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 17.07.23 12:31, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> The `migration` test currently has a number of robustness problems that
>> cause it to hang and leak resources.
>>
>> Timeout: There are 3 tests, which each previously ran for 60 seconds.
>> However, the timeout in mm/settings for a single test binary was set to
>> 45 seconds. So when run using run_kselftest.sh, the top level timeout
>> would trigger before the test binary was finished. Solve this by meeting
>> in the middle; each of the 3 tests now runs for 20 seconds (for a total
>> of 60), and the top level timeout is set to 90 seconds.
>>
>> Leaking child processes: the `shared_anon` test fork()s some children
>> but then an ASSERT() fires before the test kills those children. The
>> assert causes immediate exit of the parent and leaking of the children.
>> Furthermore, if run using the run_kselftest.sh wrapper, the wrapper
>> would get stuck waiting for those children to exit, which never happens.
>> Solve this by deferring any asserts until after the children are killed.
>> The same pattern is used for the threaded tests for uniformity.
>>
>> With these changes, the test binary now runs to completion on arm64,
>> with 2 tests passing and the `shared_anon` test failing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
>> ---
>> tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c | 14 ++++++++++----
>> tools/testing/selftests/mm/settings | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
>> b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
>> index 379581567f27..189d7d9070e8 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
>> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
>> #include <time.h>
>> #define TWOMEG (2<<20)
>> -#define RUNTIME (60)
>> +#define RUNTIME (20)
>> #define ALIGN(x, a) (((x) + (a - 1)) & (~((a) - 1)))
>> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(migration, private_anon, 2*RUNTIME)
>> {
>> uint64_t *ptr;
>> int i;
>> + int ret;
>> if (self->nthreads < 2 || self->n1 < 0 || self->n2 < 0)
>> SKIP(return, "Not enough threads or NUMA nodes available");
>> @@ -131,9 +132,10 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(migration, private_anon, 2*RUNTIME)
>> if (pthread_create(&self->threads[i], NULL, access_mem, ptr))
>> perror("Couldn't create thread");
>> - ASSERT_EQ(migrate(ptr, self->n1, self->n2), 0);
>> + ret = migrate(ptr, self->n1, self->n2);
>> for (i = 0; i < self->nthreads - 1; i++)
>> ASSERT_EQ(pthread_cancel(self->threads[i]), 0);
>> + ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
>
> Why is that required? This does not involve fork.
It's not required. I was just trying to keep everything aligned to the same pattern.
>
>> }
>> /*
>> @@ -144,6 +146,7 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(migration, shared_anon, 2*RUNTIME)
>> pid_t pid;
>> uint64_t *ptr;
>> int i;
>> + int ret;
>> if (self->nthreads < 2 || self->n1 < 0 || self->n2 < 0)
>> SKIP(return, "Not enough threads or NUMA nodes available");
>> @@ -161,9 +164,10 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(migration, shared_anon, 2*RUNTIME)
>> self->pids[i] = pid;
>> }
>> - ASSERT_EQ(migrate(ptr, self->n1, self->n2), 0);
>> + ret = migrate(ptr, self->n1, self->n2);
>> for (i = 0; i < self->nthreads - 1; i++)
>> ASSERT_EQ(kill(self->pids[i], SIGTERM), 0);
>> + ASSERT_EQ(ret, 0);
>
>
> Might be cleaner to also:
Or instead of? I agree this is neater, so will undo the moving of the ASSERT()
and rely on this prctl.
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
> b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
> index 379581567f27..b3f12b9847ec 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/migration.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> #include <numaif.h>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> +#include <sys/prctl.h>
> #include <signal.h>
> #include <time.h>
>
> @@ -155,10 +156,12 @@ TEST_F_TIMEOUT(migration, shared_anon, 2*RUNTIME)
> memset(ptr, 0xde, TWOMEG);
> for (i = 0; i < self->nthreads - 1; i++) {
> pid = fork();
> - if (!pid)
> + if (!pid) {
> + prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGHUP);
> access_mem(ptr);
> - else
> + } else {
> self->pids[i] = pid;
> + }
> }
>
> ASSERT_EQ(migrate(ptr, self->n1, self->n2), 0);
>
>
> Then, whenever the parent dies, all child processes get zapped.
>
>
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