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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kselftest: fix OOM in memory compaction test
Date: Tue,  9 Jan 2018 17:26:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180109162648.3987382-1-arnd@arndb.de> (raw)

Running the compaction_test sometimes results in out-of-memory
failures. When I debugged this, it turned out that the code to
reset the number of hugepages to the initial value is simply
broken since we write into an open sysctl file descriptor
multiple times without seeking back to the start.

Adding the lseek here fixes the problem.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Link: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3145
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
index a65b016d4c13..1097f04e4d80 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size)
 	printf("No of huge pages allocated = %d\n",
 	       (atoi(nr_hugepages)));
 
+	lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+
 	if (write(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, strlen(initial_nr_hugepages))
 	    != strlen(initial_nr_hugepages)) {
 		perror("Failed to write value to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages\n");
-- 
2.9.0

             reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 16:26 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-01-09 16:47 ` Shuah Khan
2018-01-10 17:04   ` Shuah Khan

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