linux-kernel - [PATCH] selftests: add a sanity check for zswap

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Message-Id: <20231020222009.2358953-1-nphamcs@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:20:09 -0700
From:   Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To:     shuah@...nel.org
Cc:     hannes@...xchg.org, cerasuolodomenico@...il.com, tj@...nel.org,
        lizefan.x@...edance.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, kernel-team@...a.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] selftests: add a sanity check for zswap

We recently encountered a bug that makes all zswap store attempt fail.
Specifically, after:

"141fdeececb3 mm/zswap: delay the initialization of zswap"

if we build a kernel with zswap disabled by default, then enabled after
the swapfile is set up, the zswap tree will not be initialized. As a
result, all zswap store calls will be short-circuited. We have to
perform another swapon to get zswap working properly again.

Fortunately, this issue has since been fixed by the patch that kills
frontswap:

"42c06a0e8ebe mm: kill frontswap"

which performs zswap_swapon() unconditionally, i.e always initializing
the zswap tree.

This test add a sanity check that ensure zswap storing works as
intended.

Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index 49def87a909b..c99d2adaca3f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ static int get_zswap_written_back_pages(size_t *value)
 	return read_int("/sys/kernel/debug/zswap/written_back_pages", value);
 }
 
+static long get_zswpout(const char *cgroup)
+{
+	return cg_read_key_long(cgroup, "memory.stat", "zswpout ");
+}
+
 static int allocate_bytes(const char *cgroup, void *arg)
 {
 	size_t size = (size_t)arg;
@@ -68,6 +73,48 @@ static int allocate_bytes(const char *cgroup, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Sanity test to check that pages are written into zswap.
+ */
+static int test_zswap_usage(const char *root)
+{
+	long zswpout_before, zswpout_after;
+	int ret = KSFT_FAIL;
+	char *test_group;
+
+	/* Set up */
+	test_group = cg_name(root, "no_shrink_test");
+	if (!test_group)
+		goto out;
+	if (cg_create(test_group))
+		goto out;
+	if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "1M"))
+		goto out;
+
+	zswpout_before = get_zswpout(test_group);
+	if (zswpout_before < 0) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Failed to get zswpout\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	/* Allocate more than memory.max to push memory into zswap */
+	if (cg_run(test_group, allocate_bytes, (void *)MB(4)))
+		goto out;
+
+	/* Verify that pages come into zswap */
+	zswpout_after = get_zswpout(test_group);
+	if (zswpout_after <= zswpout_before) {
+		ksft_print_msg("zswpout does not increase after test program\n");
+		goto out;
+	}
+	ret = KSFT_PASS;
+
+out:
+	cg_destroy(test_group);
+	free(test_group);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * When trying to store a memcg page in zswap, if the memcg hits its memory
  * limit in zswap, writeback should not be triggered.
@@ -235,6 +282,7 @@ struct zswap_test {
 	int (*fn)(const char *root);
 	const char *name;
 } tests[] = {
+	T(test_zswap_usage),
 	T(test_no_kmem_bypass),
 	T(test_no_invasive_cgroup_shrink),
 };
-- 
2.34.1