[PATCH v4 4/4] selftests/hmm-tests: Add test for dirty bits

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Mon Sep 5 10:41:07 AEST 2022


On 9/1/22 17:35, Alistair Popple wrote:
> We were not correctly copying PTE dirty bits to pages during
> migrate_vma_setup() calls. This could potentially lead to data loss, so
> add a test for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
> index 529f53b..70fdb49 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c
> @@ -1200,6 +1200,130 @@ TEST_F(hmm, migrate_multiple)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static char cgroup[] = "/sys/fs/cgroup/hmm-test-XXXXXX";
> +static int write_cgroup_param(char *cgroup_path, char *param, long value)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +	FILE *f;
> +	char *filename;
> +
> +	if (asprintf(&filename, "%s/%s", cgroup_path, param) < 0)
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	f = fopen(filename, "w");
> +	if (!f) {
> +		ret = -1;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	ret = fprintf(f, "%ld\n", value);
> +	if (ret < 0)
> +		goto out1;
> +
> +	ret = 0;
> +
> +out1:
> +	fclose(f);
> +out:
> +	free(filename);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static int setup_cgroup(void)
> +{
> +	pid_t pid = getpid();
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	if (!mkdtemp(cgroup))
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	ret = write_cgroup_param(cgroup, "cgroup.procs", pid);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int destroy_cgroup(void)
> +{
> +	pid_t pid = getpid();
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = write_cgroup_param("/sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.procs",
> +				"cgroup.proc", pid);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	if (rmdir(cgroup))
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Try and migrate a dirty page that has previously been swapped to disk. This
> + * checks that we don't loose dirty bits.

s/loose/lose/

> + */
> +TEST_F(hmm, migrate_dirty_page)
> +{
> +	struct hmm_buffer *buffer;
> +	unsigned long npages;
> +	unsigned long size;
> +	unsigned long i;
> +	int *ptr;
> +	int tmp = 0;
> +
> +	npages = ALIGN(HMM_BUFFER_SIZE, self->page_size) >> self->page_shift;
> +	ASSERT_NE(npages, 0);
> +	size = npages << self->page_shift;
> +
> +	buffer = malloc(sizeof(*buffer));
> +	ASSERT_NE(buffer, NULL);
> +
> +	buffer->fd = -1;
> +	buffer->size = size;
> +	buffer->mirror = malloc(size);
> +	ASSERT_NE(buffer->mirror, NULL);
> +
> +	ASSERT_EQ(setup_cgroup(), 0);
> +
> +	buffer->ptr = mmap(NULL, size,
> +			   PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> +			   MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> +			   buffer->fd, 0);
> +	ASSERT_NE(buffer->ptr, MAP_FAILED);
> +
> +	/* Initialize buffer in system memory. */
> +	for (i = 0, ptr = buffer->ptr; i < size / sizeof(*ptr); ++i)
> +		ptr[i] = 0;
> +
> +	ASSERT_FALSE(write_cgroup_param(cgroup, "memory.reclaim", 1UL<<30));
> +
> +	/* Fault pages back in from swap as clean pages */
> +	for (i = 0, ptr = buffer->ptr; i < size / sizeof(*ptr); ++i)
> +		tmp += ptr[i];
> +
> +	/* Dirty the pte */
> +	for (i = 0, ptr = buffer->ptr; i < size / sizeof(*ptr); ++i)
> +		ptr[i] = i;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Attempt to migrate memory to device, which should fail because
> +	 * hopefully some pages are backed by swap storage.
> +	 */
> +	ASSERT_TRUE(hmm_migrate_sys_to_dev(self->fd, buffer, npages));

Are you really sure that you want to assert on that? Because doing so
guarantees a test failure if and when we every upgrade the kernel to
be able to migrate swap-backed pages. And I seem to recall that this
current inability to migrate swap-backed pages is considered a flaw
to be fixed, right?


> +
> +	ASSERT_FALSE(write_cgroup_param(cgroup, "memory.reclaim", 1UL<<30));
> +
> +	/* Check we still see the updated data after restoring from swap. */
> +	for (i = 0, ptr = buffer->ptr; i < size / sizeof(*ptr); ++i)
> +		ASSERT_EQ(ptr[i], i);
> +
> +	hmm_buffer_free(buffer);
> +	destroy_cgroup();
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Read anonymous memory multiple times.
>   */

thanks,

-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA



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