History log of /linux-master/tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb_madv_vs_map.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 8c407e05 05-Jan-2024 Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>

selftests/mm: new test that steals pages

This test stresses the race between of madvise(DONTNEED), a page fault
and a parallel huge page mmap, which should fail due to lack of
available page available for mapping.

This test case must run on a system with one and only one huge page
available.

# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages

During setup, the test allocates the only available page, and starts
three threads:

- thread 1:
* madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) on the allocated huge page
- thread 2:
* Write to the allocated huge page
- thread 3:
* Tries to allocated (steal) an extra huge page (which is not
available)

thread 3 should never succeed in the allocation, since the only huge
page was never unmapped, and should be reserved.

Touching the old page after thread3 allocation will raise a SIGBUS.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240105155419.1939484-2-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>