When running with CATEGORY= (thp | hugetlb) we see a large numbers of tests failing. These failures are due to not being able to allocate a hugepage and normally occur on memory contrainted systems or when using large page sizes.

drop_cache and compact_memory before the tests for a higher chance at a successful hugepage allocation.

Signed-off-by: Nico Pache npache@redhat.com --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh index 246d53a5d7f2..040f27e21f47 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh @@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ pretty_name() { # Usage: run_test [test binary] [arbitrary test arguments...] run_test() { if test_selected ${CATEGORY}; then + # On memory constrainted systems some tests can fail to allocate hugepages. + # perform some cleanup before the test for a higher success rate. + if [ ${CATEGORY} == "thp" ] | [ ${CATEGORY} == "hugetlb" ]; then + echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches + sleep 2 + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory + sleep 2 + fi + local test=$(pretty_name "$*") local title="running $*" local sep=$(echo -n "$title" | tr "[:graph:][:space:]" -)