Re: [RFC][PATCH] selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: fix ram size thinko

From: George G. Davis
Date: Tue Sep 28 2021 - 14:06:13 EST


On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 09:58:43AM -0400, George G. Davis wrote:
> From: "George G. Davis" <davis.george@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When executing transhuge-stress with an argument to specify the virtual
> memory size for testing, the ram size is reported as 0, e.g.
>
> transhuge-stress 384
> thp-mmap: allocate 192 transhuge pages, using 384 MiB virtual memory and 0 MiB of ram
> thp-mmap: 0.184 s/loop, 0.957 ms/page, 2090.265 MiB/s 192 succeed, 0 failed
>
> This appears to be due to a thinko in commit 0085d61fe05e
> ("selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: stress test for memory compaction"),
> where, at a guess, the intent was to base "xyz MiB of ram" on `ram`
> size. Here are results after using `ram` size:
>
> thp-mmap: allocate 192 transhuge pages, using 384 MiB virtual memory and 14 MiB of ram
>
> Fixes: 0085d61fe05e ("selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: stress test for memory compaction")
> Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <davis.george@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress.c
> index fd7f1b4a96f9..5e4c036f6ad3 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/transhuge-stress.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>
> warnx("allocate %zd transhuge pages, using %zd MiB virtual memory"
> " and %zd MiB of ram", len >> HPAGE_SHIFT, len >> 20,
> - len >> (20 + HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT - 1));
> + ram >> (20 + HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT - 1));

Ping, any comments on this?

For the record, as noted, the value reported for "ram size" appears to
use the wrong variable, `len`, where `ram` should be used instead.

>
> pagemap_fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
> if (pagemap_fd < 0)
> --
> 2.17.1
>

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Regards,
George