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[3/3] selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Dump to /dev/null

Message ID 20250107-virtual_address_range-tests-v1-3-3834a2fb47fe@linutronix.de (mailing list archive)
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Series selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Two bugfixes and a cleanup | expand

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Thomas Weißschuh Jan. 7, 2025, 3:14 p.m. UTC
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
	<snip>
	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 <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Thomas Weißschuh Jan. 8, 2025, 7:38 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 11:39:40AM +0530, 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
> > 	<snip>
> > 	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<thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
> > ---
> >   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.

That makes sense and I can reproduce your example.
Switching to another dummy file which reads the written data like
/dev/random also leads to OOM, so wouldn't help either.

Thanks for the explanation.

@Andrew, could you drop this patch?

> To test this behaviour, run the following program:

[..]

PS: Your mail contained HTML and did not make it to the list archives.
(And the text variant of the example program was corrupted)
David Hildenbrand Jan. 8, 2025, 1:30 p.m. UTC | #2
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
>> 	<snip>
>> 	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<thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
>> ---
>>   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 <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <sys/mman.h>
> 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?
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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;
 		}