selftests: cgroup: fix alloc_anon_noexit() instantly freeing memory
authorYosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:36:59 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:36:59 +0000 (14:36 -0700)
Currently, alloc_anon_noexit() calls alloc_anon() which instantly frees
the allocated memory. alloc_anon_noexit() is usually used with
cg_run_nowait() to run a process in the background that allocates
memory. It makes sense for the background process to keep the memory
allocated and not instantly free it (otherwise there is no point of
running it in the background).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220425190040.2475377-4-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Chen Wandun <chenwandun@huawei.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Michal Koutn" <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c

index 9c1f19f..a639bf4 100644 (file)
@@ -211,13 +211,17 @@ static int alloc_pagecache_50M_noexit(const char *cgroup, void *arg)
 static int alloc_anon_noexit(const char *cgroup, void *arg)
 {
        int ppid = getppid();
+       size_t size = (unsigned long)arg;
+       char *buf, *ptr;
 
-       if (alloc_anon(cgroup, arg))
-               return -1;
+       buf = malloc(size);
+       for (ptr = buf; ptr < buf + size; ptr += PAGE_SIZE)
+               *ptr = 0;
 
        while (getppid() == ppid)
                sleep(1);
 
+       free(buf);
        return 0;
 }