[LTP] [PATCH v2 0/2] OOM protection for shell tests

Andrea Cervesato andrea.cervesato@suse.de
Thu Jul 30 15:05:22 CEST 2026


Under Li's idea, implement a OOM protection mechanism for the shell
tests so we can avoid OOM for memcg stress tests.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
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Changes in v2:
- update shell OOM protection functional test
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/20260713-shell_oom_protection-v1-0-b732e8647894@suse.com

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Andrea Cervesato (2):
      shell: add optional OOM protection
      memcg_stress: survive OOM by targeting the stressors

 doc/developers/writing_tests.rst                   |  3 ++
 .../controllers/memcg/stress/memcg_stress_test.sh  |  1 +
 testcases/lib/tests/shell_oom_protection.sh        | 42 ++++++++++++++++
 testcases/lib/tst_test.sh                          | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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base-commit: 4918812af24a0e06fa3a9ba6da2679cfea1f2126
change-id: 20260713-shell_oom_protection-6221ab825220

Best regards,
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Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>



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