selftests/mm: new test that steals pages
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Fri, 5 Jan 2024 15:54:19 +0000 (07:54 -0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:24:41 +0000 (10:24 -0800)
commit8c407e05a9b3bd851c5731387033edfb362b8b98
treee17030e8859f2e63dc36a808f87b51565df6b7d1
parentd749cc7547bb46be73da848576ea155daf8186f3
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>
tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/mm/hugetlb_madv_vs_map.c [new file with mode: 0644]