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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:19:09 +0000
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, horms@...nel.org,
shuah@...nel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] selftests: rtnetlink: try double sleep to give WQ a
chance
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 07:17:29AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:14:03 +0000 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > sleep 5
> > > + # Schedule out for a bit, address GC runs from the power efficient WQ
> > > + # if the long sleep above has put the whole system into sleep state
> > > + # the WQ may have not had a chance to run.
> > > + sleep 0.1
> > > +
> >
> > How about use slowwait to check if the address still exists.
>
> Weirdly if we read the addresses twice they disappear, I haven't looked
> into the code for the why, but seemed like using slowwait could
> potentially mask the addresses sticking around when nobody runs
> the Netlink handlers for a while? Dunno..
Not sure if I understand correctly. Do you mean the addresses will keep there
if we use slowwait?
Thanks
Hangbin
>
> I queued this debug patch a couple of months ago:
>
> sleep 5
> - run_cmd_grep_fail "10.23.11." ip addr show dev "$devdummy"
> + ip addr show dev "$devdummy" > /tmp/a
> + run_cmd_grep_fail "10.23.11." cat /tmp/a
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
> - check_err 1
> - end_test "FAIL: preferred_lft addresses remaining"
> + check_err 1
> + cat /tmp/a
> + echo "==="
> + ip addr show dev "$devdummy"
> + end_test "FAIL: preferred_lft addresses remaining ($lft)"
> return
> fi
>
> And when it flakes the output looks like this:
>
> # 7.23 [+7.00] 297: test-dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
> # 7.23 [+0.00] link/ether 9e:a6:c4:c2:1b:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> # 7.23 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.81/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.23 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.23 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.84/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.24 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.93/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.24 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.94/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.24 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.97/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.24 [+0.00] inet 10.23.11.99/32 scope global deprecated dynamic test-dummy0
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft 0sec preferred_lft 0sec
> # 7.24 [+0.00] inet6 fe80::9ca6:c4ff:fec2:1b16/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
> # 7.24 [+0.00] valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> # 7.24 [+0.00] ===
> # 7.25 [+0.00] 297: test-dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
> # 7.25 [+0.00] link/ether 9e:a6:c4:c2:1b:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> # 7.25 [+0.00] inet6 fe80::9ca6:c4ff:fec2:1b16/64 scope link proto kernel_ll
> # 7.25 [+0.00] valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> # 7.25 [+0.00] FAIL: preferred_lft addresses remaining (1)
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