On 11/27/25 18:55, Lance Yang wrote:
On 2025/11/24 20:38, Guopeng Zhang wrote:
test_memcg_sock() currently requires that memory.stat's "sock " counter is exactly zero immediately after the TCP server exits. On a busy system this assumption is too strict:
- Socket memory may be freed with a small delay (e.g. RCU callbacks). - memcg statistics are updated asynchronously via the rstat flushing worker, so the "sock " value in memory.stat can stay non-zero for a short period of time even after all socket memory has been uncharged.
As a result, test_memcg_sock() can intermittently fail even though socket memory accounting is working correctly.
Make the test more robust by polling memory.stat for the "sock " counter and allowing it some time to drop to zero instead of checking it only once. The timeout is set to 3 seconds to cover the periodic rstat flush interval (FLUSH_TIME = 2*HZ by default) plus some scheduling slack. If the counter does not become zero within the timeout, the test still fails as before.
On my test system, running test_memcontrol 50 times produced:
- Before this patch: 6/50 runs passed. - After this patch: 50/50 runs passed.
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn Suggested-by: Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev
.../selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c index 4e1647568c5b..dda12e5c6457 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ #include "kselftest.h"
This patch fails to apply to mm-new ...
Hmm, it expects #include "kselftest.h" here, but the tree uses #include "../kselftest.h".
Which is odd, as that line hasn't been touched in years ...
Hi,lance
Thanks for your review.
When I prepared this patch I was working on linux-next, where tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c already uses:
#include "kselftest.h"
I just checked, and this change comes from the following commit:
1aaedc385b9b278dcf91f4e9d0c3e1a078804ff1 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?...
So the patch applies cleanly on top of the latest linux-next, but not on mm-new which still has `#include "../kselftest.h"`.
Thanks, Guopeng