Re: [External] [RFC 1/7] lib/test_vmalloc: Add non-block-alloc-test case

[Uladzislau Rezki]

Hello, Adrian!

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx <owner-linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
> > Of Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
> > Sent: Friday, July 4, 2025 11:26 PM
> > To: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx; Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>; LKML
> > <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>; Uladzislau
> > Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [External] [RFC 1/7] lib/test_vmalloc: Add non-block-alloc-test case
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  lib/test_vmalloc.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/test_vmalloc.c b/lib/test_vmalloc.c index
> > 1b0b59549aaf..9e3429dfe176 100644
> > --- a/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > +++ b/lib/test_vmalloc.c
> > @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ __param(int, run_test_mask, INT_MAX,
> >  		"\t\tid: 256,  name: kvfree_rcu_1_arg_vmalloc_test\n"
> >  		"\t\tid: 512,  name: kvfree_rcu_2_arg_vmalloc_test\n"
> >  		"\t\tid: 1024, name: vm_map_ram_test\n"
> > +		"\t\tid: 2048, name: no_block_alloc_test\n"
> >  		/* Add a new test case description here. */  );
> > 
> > @@ -283,6 +284,31 @@ static int fix_size_alloc_test(void)
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > 
> > +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(no_block_alloc_lock);
> > +
> > +static int no_block_alloc_test(void)
> > +{
> > +	void *ptr;
> > +	u8 rnd;
> > +	int i;
> > +
> > +	for (i = 0; i < test_loop_count; i++) {
> > +		rnd = get_random_u8();
> > +
> > +		spin_lock(&no_block_alloc_lock);
> 
> Since there is no shared data to be protected, do we need this lock for serialization? Any concerns?
> 
> It spent 18 minutes for this test (256-core server):
>   # time modprobe test_vmalloc nr_threads=$(nproc) run_test_mask=0x800
>   real    18m6.099s
>   user    0m0.002s
>   sys     0m4.555s
> 
> Without the lock, it spent 41 seconds (Have run for 300+ tests without any failure: 256-core server):
>   # time modprobe test_vmalloc nr_threads=$(nproc) run_test_mask=0x800
>   real    0m41.367s
>   user    0m0.003s
>   sys     0m5.758s
> 
> Would it be better to run this test concurrently? That said, it can also verify the scalability problem when the number of CPUs grow. 
> 
It was added just to track the sleep-in-atomic issues. We do not need
that spin-lock in fact. Instead we can just invoke
preempt_disable/enable() to simulate the context which is not allowed
to trigger any schedule(), i.e. sleeping.

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Uladzislau Rezki