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>>> see __vm_enough_memory() and vm_commit_limit(). >>> In that case the logic in validate_complete_va_space() does not make >>> sense and will even incorrectly fail. >>> Instead skip the test if no mmap() succeeded. >>> >>> Fixes: 010409649885 ("selftests/mm: confirm VA exhaustion without reliance on correctness of mmap()") >>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org CC stable on tests is ... odd. >>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh >>> >>> --- >>> The logic in __vm_enough_memory() seems weird. >>> It describes itself as "Check that a process has enough memory to >>> allocate a new virtual mapping", however it never checks the current >>> memory usage of the process. >>> So it only disallows large mappings. But many small mappings taking the >>> same amount of memory are allowed; and then even automatically merged >>> into one big mapping. >>> --- >>> tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c | 6 ++++++ >>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >>> index 2a2b69e91950a37999f606847c9c8328d79890c2..d7bf8094d8bcd4bc96e2db4dc3fcb41968def859 100644 >>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >>> @@ -178,6 +178,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) >>> validate_addr(ptr[i], 0); >>> } >>> lchunks = i; >>> + >>> + if (!lchunks) { >>> + ksft_test_result_skip("Not enough memory for a single chunk\n"); >>> + ksft_finished(); >>> + } >>> + >>> hptr = (char **) calloc(NR_CHUNKS_HIGH, sizeof(char *)); >>> if (hptr == NULL) { >>> ksft_test_result_skip("Memory constraint not fulfilled\n"); >>> >> >> I do not know about __vm_enough_memory(), but I am going by your description: >> You say that the kernel may fail mmap() when enough physical memory is not >> there, but it may happen that we have already done 100 mmap()'s, and then >> the kernel fails mmap(), so if (!lchunks) won't be able to handle this case. >> Basically, lchunks == 0 is not a complete indicator of kernel failing mmap(). > > __vm_enough_memory() only checks the size of each single mmap() on its > own. It does not actually check the current memory or address space > usage of the process. > This seems a bit weird, as indicated in my after-the-fold explanation. > >> The basic assumption of the test is that any process should be able to exhaust >> its virtual address space, and running the test under memory pressure and the >> kernel violating this behaviour defeats the point of the test I think? > > The assumption is correct, as soon as one mapping succeeds the others > will also succeed, until the actual address space is exhausted. > > Looking at it again, __vm_enough_memory() is only called for writable > mappings, so it would be possible to use only readable mappings in the > test. The test will still fail with OOM, as the many PTEs need more than > 1GiB of physical memory anyways, but at least that produces a usable > error message. > However I'm not sure if this would violate other test assumptions. > Note that with MAP_NORESRVE, most setups we care about will allow mapping as much as you want, but on access OOM will fire. So one could require that /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory is setup properly and use MAP_NORESRVE. Reading from anonymous memory will populate the shared zeropage. To mitigate OOM from "too many page tables", one could simply unmap the pieces as they are verified (or MAP_FIXED over them, to free page tables). -- Cheers, David / dhildenb