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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Stat-Signature: bw6tjadk73bme867uncx198mnpdytk89 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: CC3FD1C0010 X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1736343029-400118 X-HE-Meta: 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 YsTut9L8 bpzZJ5AQfbXFVCnfye7myyRjnPhRFK5iIBxwchRDCV3LJJX8Y2OHPpgIjyl78ZcgQI04GxlqFZrDJD/gARQClaO3ps0w2p2DbS+usJSptmw0c8efhZfMjjnGSDisZh+iInhCtT/tT7GI+9NKSepHYhPWyFxVBzyeLV/esste0xZjxQ3FiWRZYmetgVNmU6R9OgY5l/mxfZdZ1T4SuAo5v0kquyPGGlu0iFVxRQ9rSWIYMz0ULsmTKK05dt4CuwlMtJSkrG2QCqWsnvRS9U5LXEqk5WX+TN4ma+wv99ryZKDx3A8RIAjApJGwmuMmiSOTO8d/0IWkbBWfajhQSDAsooXXTOaC2wX7wF21jCYU1d7/upcmb9KEGxRQ3syYCvjPOiyEGFWVVfZ7jYu2s+IxZ0RWa2BzaPZ66BKtLl4DIqMQuhWL3RdKHwwwQPGUJhgmuTQWl7bS2dIaoSI8I+Ws8WbtVow== X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 08.01.25 07:09, Dev Jain wrote: > > On 07/01/25 8:44 pm, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: >> During the execution of validate_complete_va_space() a lot of memory is >> on the VM subsystem. When running on a low memory subsystem an OOM may >> be triggered, when writing to the dump file as the filesystem may also >> require memory. >> >> On my test system with 1100MiB physical memory: >> >> Tasks state (memory values in pages): >> [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss rss_anon rss_file rss_shmem pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name >> [ 57] 0 57 34359215953 695 256 0 439 1064390656 0 0 virtual_address >> >> Out of memory: Killed process 57 (virtual_address) total-vm:137436863812kB, anon-rss:1024kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:1756kB, UID:0 pgtables:1039444kB oom_score_adj:0 >> >> fault_in_iov_iter_readable+0x4a/0xd0 >> generic_perform_write+0x9c/0x280 >> shmem_file_write_iter+0x86/0x90 >> vfs_write+0x29c/0x480 >> ksys_write+0x6c/0xe0 >> do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0 >> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f >> >> Write the dumped data into /dev/null instead which does not require >> additional memory during write(), making the code simpler as a >> side-effect. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh >> --- >> tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c | 6 ++---- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >> index 484f82c7b7c871f82a7d9ec6d6c649f2ab1eb0cd..4042fd878acd702d23da2c3293292de33bd48143 100644 >> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c >> @@ -103,10 +103,9 @@ static int validate_complete_va_space(void) >> FILE *file; >> int fd; >> >> - fd = open("va_dump", O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0600); >> - unlink("va_dump"); >> + fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY); >> if (fd < 0) { >> - ksft_test_result_skip("cannot create or open dump file\n"); >> + ksft_test_result_skip("cannot create or open /dev/null\n"); >> ksft_finished(); >> } >> >> @@ -152,7 +151,6 @@ static int validate_complete_va_space(void) >> while (start_addr + hop < end_addr) { >> if (write(fd, (void *)(start_addr + hop), 1) != 1) >> return 1; >> - lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET); >> >> hop += MAP_CHUNK_SIZE; >> } >> > > The reason I had not used /dev/null was that write() was succeeding to /dev/null > even from an address not in my VA space. I was puzzled about this behaviour of > /dev/null and I chose to ignore it and just use a real file. > > To test this behaviour, run the following program: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > intmain() > { > intfd; > fd = open("va_dump", O_CREAT| O_WRONLY, 0600); > unlink("va_dump"); > // fd = open("/dev/null", O_WRONLY); > intret = munmap((void*)(1UL<< 30), 100); > if(!ret) > printf("munmap succeeded\n"); > intres = write(fd, (void*)(1UL<< 30), 1); > if(res == 1) > printf("write succeeded\n"); > return0; > } > The write will fail as expected, but if you comment out the va_dump > lines and use /dev/null, the write will succeed. What exactly do we want to achieve with the write? Verify that the output of /proc/self/map is reasonable and we can actually resolve a fault / map a page? Why not access the memory directly+signal handler or using /proc/self/mem, so you can avoid the temp file completely? -- Cheers, David / dhildenb