Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests

[Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 4:28 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On 5/16/22 2:47 PM, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 1:29 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 5/16/22 1:55 AM, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> >>> Introduce process_mrelease syscall sanity tests which include tests
> >>> which expect to fail:
> >>> - process_mrelease with invalid pidfd and flags inputs
> >>> - process_mrelease on a live process with no pending signals
> >>> and valid process_mrelease usage which is expected to succeed.
> >>> Because process_mrelease has to be used against a process with a pending
> >>> SIGKILL, it's possible that the process exits before process_mrelease
> >>> gets called. In such cases we retry the test with a victim that allocates
> >>> twice more memory up to 1GB. This would require the victim process to
> >>> spend more time during exit and process_mrelease has a better chance of
> >>> catching the process before it exits and succeeding.
> >>>
> >>> On success the test reports the amount of memory the child had to
> >>> allocate for reaping to succeed. Sample output:
> >>>       Success reaping a child with 1MB of memory allocations
> >>>
> >>> On failure the test reports the failure. Sample outputs:
> >>>       All process_mrelease attempts failed!
> >>>       process_mrelease: Invalid argument
> >>>
> >>
> >> Nit: Please format this better - include actual example output from the
> >> command and how to run the test examples.
> >
> > Hmm... Those are the actual outputs from the command and it does not
> > take any input arguments. Do you mean smth like this:
> >
> > $ mrelease_test
> > Success reaping a child with 1MB of memory allocations
> >
> > $ mrelease_test
> > All process_mrelease attempts failed!
> >
> > $ mrelease_test
> > process_mrelease: Invalid argument
> >
> > ?
>
> This looks good.
>
> >
> >>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>    tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore      |   1 +
> >>>    tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile        |   1 +
> >>>    tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>    tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh  |  16 ++
> >>>    4 files changed, 232 insertions(+)
> >>>    create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c
> >>>
>
> [snip]
>
> >>
> >> Okay these above 3 routines are called once. I am not seeing any point
> >> in making these separate routines. I made the same comment on v1.
> >
> > I must have misunderstood your previous comment. Will change.
> >
>
> Thank you.
>
> >>
>
> >>
> >> Now the above code can be a separate function which will make it readable.
> >
> > Ack.
> >
> >>
>
> >>> +
> >>
> >> Why do you need these ifdefs - syscall will return ENOSYS and you can
> >> key off that. Please take a look at other usages of syscall in the
> >> repo.
> >
> > The issue is that I need to provide the syscall number when calling
> > syscall() (in my case __NR_pidfd_open and __NR_process_mrelease) and
> > if that number is not defined in the userspace headers on a given
> > system then what should I pass instead?
> > When implementing this I followed the examples of
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/tools/testing/selftests/vm/memfd_secret.c#L30
> > and https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c#L65.
> > My original implementation was modeled after this approach:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mlock2.h#L15.
> > If none of these are correct, could you please point me to the example
> > you want me to follow?
> >
>
> kselftests include kernel headers. As long as these syscalls are
> defined in the kernel headers, the test will build.
>
> Looks it is defined in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
>
> You can assume it is defined and then if we find architectures that
> don't, you can follow what tools/testing/selftests/pidfd/pidfd.h
> does.
>
> This way the test can simply call syscall and handle ENOSYS.

Thanks for the guidance! I'll try that approach.
Suren.

>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>
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