[LTP] [PATCH v1] mmapstress06: TCONF on systems without swap space
Petr Vorel
pvorel@suse.cz
Tue Apr 28 14:58:04 CEST 2026
Hi all,
> mmapstress06 is designed to stress the mfile_swap kernel primitive, which
> manages shared anonymous memory. On architectures with large pages (like
> 64KB on ppc64le), the test's hardcoded request for 32769 pages results
> in a ~2GB mapping. So in suse test system configured with 2GB of RAM and
> no swap space, the test will fails with following information:
> mmapstress06: errno = 12; large mmap failed
> for this test to run, it needs a mmap space of
> 32769 pages
> The failure occurs because the 2GB request cannot be fulfilled within
> the 2GB RAM limit without swap backing. Since the test specifically
> intends to exercise swap-related logic (mfile_swap), it should be skipped
> with TCONF when the system lacks swap space.
> Signed-off-by: Wei Gao <wegao@suse.com>
> ---
> testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c b/testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c
> index 37b7edc84..54b5febbf 100644
> --- a/testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c
> +++ b/testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ void ok_exit();
> #define ANON_GRAN_PAGES_MAX (32U)
> +#include "tst_memutils.h"
> +
> extern time_t time(time_t *);
> extern char *ctime(const time_t *);
> extern int atoi(const char *);
> @@ -74,6 +76,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> (void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s sleep_time\n", argv[0]);
> anyfail();
> }
> +
> + if (tst_available_swap() <= 0) {
> + tst_resm(TCONF, "Test requires swap space to exercise mfile_swap logic");
Why to require swap for the test instead of checking for ENOMEM later?
> + tst_exit();
nit: I'd use tst_brkm() although it has ugly "Remaining cases broken" message as
it will be more obvious when doing rewrite.
> + }
How about this? (with cleanup of ugly printf).
Kind regards,
Petr
+++ testcases/kernel/mem/mmapstress/mmapstress06.c
@@ -89,10 +89,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
(mmapaddr, (ANON_GRAN_PAGES_MAX * NMFPTEPG + 1) * pagesize,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, 0,
0) == (caddr_t) - 1) {
- ERROR("large mmap failed");
- printf("for this test to run, it needs a mmap space of\n");
- printf("%d pages\n", (ANON_GRAN_PAGES_MAX * NMFPTEPG + 1));
- return 1;
+ if (errno == ENOMEM) {
+ tst_brkm(TCONF, NULL, "not enough memory or swap for mmap() %d pages",
+ ANON_GRAN_PAGES_MAX * NMFPTEPG + 1);
+ }
+
+ tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, NULL, "mmap() failed");
}
(void)sleep(sleep_time);
(void)time(&t);
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