[LTP] [PATCH v3] mm: rewrite mtest01 with new API

[Li Wang]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 7:21 PM Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Test issue:
> >    mtest01 start many children to alloc chunck of memory and do write
> >    page(with -w option), but occasionally some children were killed by
> >    oom-killer and exit with SIGCHLD signal sending. After the parent
> >    reciving this SIGCHLD signal it will report FAIL as a test result.
> >
> >    It seems not a real kernel bug if something just like that, it's
> >    trying to use 80% of memory and swap. Once it uses most of memory,
> >    system starts swapping, but the test is likely consuming memory at
> >    greater rate than kswapd can provide, which eventually triggers OOM.
> >
> >    ---- FAIL LOG ----
> >    mtest01     0  TINFO  :  Total memory already used on system = 1027392
> >    kbytes
> >    mtest01     0  TINFO  :  Total memory used needed to reach maximum =
> >    12715520 kbytes
> >    mtest01     0  TINFO  :  Filling up 80% of ram which is 11688128
> kbytes
> >    mtest01     1  TFAIL  :  mtest01.c:314: child process exited
> unexpectedly
> >    -------------------
> >
> >  Rewrite changes:
> >    To make mtest01 more easier to understand, I just rewrite it into
> >    LTP new API and make a little changes in children behavior.
> >
> >    * decrease the pressure to 80% of free memory for testing
> >    * drop the signal SIGCHLD action becasue new API help to
> >    check_child_status
> >    * make child pause itself after finishing their memory
> allocating/writing
> >    * parent sends SIGCONT to make children continue and exit
> >    * use TST_PROCESS_STATE_WAIT to wait child changes to 'T' state
> >    * involve ALLOC_THRESHOLD to rework same code in defines
> >    * to make mtest01 support running with -i N > 1
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Notes:
> >     v2 --> v3
> >        * modify test description for new version
> >        * move some global variables to local
> >        * remove SIGCONT sending from cleanup
> >        * involve ALLOC_THRESHOLD to avoid same code in defines
>
> Hi,
>
> looks lot more readable than original version.
>
> Some nit-picks below / no need to re-post for that typo,
> I can fix it before commit.
>

Thanks so much.

<snip>
>
> > +#if defined (_s390_)
> > +#define ALLOC_THRESHOLD              FIVE_HUNDRED_MB
> > +#elif __WORDSIZE == 32
> > +#define ALLOC_THRESHOL               (unsigned long
> long)(2*FIVE_HUNDRED_MB)
>
> typo here, missing 'D'
>
> > +#elif __WORDSIZE == 64
> > +#define ALLOC_THRESHOLD              (unsigned long
> long)(6*FIVE_HUNDRED_MB)
> > +#endif
> >
> > -static void handler(int signo)
> > +#define STOP_THRESHOLD 15    /* seconds remaining before reaching
> timeout */
> > +
> > +static pid_t *pid_list;
> > +static sig_atomic_t pid_count;
> > +static int max_pids;
> > +static unsigned long long alloc_maxbytes;
> > +static unsigned long long original_maxbytes;
>
> We could use "original_maxbytes" in setup() and options(),
> then alloc_maxbytes could be local variable of mem_test().
>

Yes, that's right.


>
> <snip>
> > +static void do_write_page(char *mem, int chunksize)
> > +{
> > +     int i;
> >
> > -     free(pid_list);
> > +     for (i = 0; i < chunksize; i++)
> > +             *(mem + i) = 'a';
>
> We could do i+=pagesize to make it slightly faster.
>

Agreed. I didn't realized that before.


>
> <snip>
>
> > +static void child_loop_alloc(unsigned long long alloc_bytes)
> > +{
> > +     unsigned long bytecount = (unsigned long)chunksize;
>
> Shouldn't this variable start at 0?
>

Yes.

>
> > +     char *mem;
> > +
> > +     while (1) {
> > +             mem = SAFE_MALLOC(chunksize);
> > +             if (dowrite)
> > +                     do_write_page(mem, chunksize);
> > +
> > +             if (verbose)
> > +                     tst_res(TINFO,
> > +                             "child %d allocated %lu bytes chunksize is
> %d",
> > +                             getpid(), bytecount, chunksize);
> > +             bytecount += chunksize;
> > +             if (bytecount >= alloc_bytes)
> > +                     break;
> >       }
>
> Overall, the rewrite looks good to me.
>
> Thanks,
> Jan
>


-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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