[PATCH 00/16] Introduce memblock simulator
From: Karolina Drobnik
Date: Thu Jan 27 2022 - 08:22:34 EST
Memblock is a boot time memory allocator, which allows managing memory
regions before the actual memory management is initialized. Because it is
used so early during the booting process, testing and debugging it is
difficult. As memblock has few kernel dependencies, it is possible to
simulate its runtime behaviour in userspace after stubbing a couple of
structs and functions.
This series of patches adds an initial version of a test suite for
memblock, which is a part of tools/testing infrastructure. Checks included
here test the basic functionality of memblock, which is memory regions
management - adding/removing available regions, marking them as reserved
or freeing them.
To run the tests, build the main target and run it:
$ make; ./main
A successful run produces no output. Also, It is possible to override
different configuration parameters. For example, to simulate enabled NUMA,
use:
$ make NUMA=1
For the full list of options, see `make help`.
The future work will include tests for memory allocation done via
memblock_alloc_* and memblock_phys_alloc_* family of functions. It will
also focus on improving the test suite by adding dedicated test targets
for each group of API functions and verbose output.
For a refresher on memblock, see Boot time memory management
documentation page[1] and "Getting to know memblock"[2] blog post.
Patchset structure:
* Patch 1 extracts stub definitions of kmalloc/kfree from the radix-tree
testing suite, so they can be used in other tests, including memblock
simulator
* Patches 2-4 update tools headers to include missing definitions needed
by memblock (e.g. phys_addr_t typedef)
* Patches 5-9 add new files to tools/include, some with dummy/downsized
definitions
* Patch 10 adds the basic project with local stubs that are closely
connected to memblock
* Patch 11 adds a reset function, which is used as a part of the test
setup. This functionality is needed, as memblock is reused in each check
* Patches 12-16 add basic test cases for the core memblock functionalities
[1] - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/boot-time-mm.html
[2] - https://insecuremode.com/post/2021/12/14/getting-to-know-memblock.html
Karolina Drobnik (16):
tools: Move gfp.h and slab.h from radix-tree to lib
tools/include: Add phys_addr_t to types.h
tools/include: Add _RET_IP_ and math definitions to kernel.h
tools/include: Update atomic.h header
tools/include: Add mm.h file
tools/include: Add cache.h stub
tools/include: Add io.h stub
tools/include: Add pfn.h stub
tools/include: Add debugfs.h stub
memblock tests: Add skeleton of the memblock simulator
memblock tests: Add memblock reset function
memblock tests: Add memblock_add tests
memblock tests: Add memblock_reserve tests
memblock tests: Add memblock_remove tests
memblock tests: Add memblock_add_node test
memblock tests: Add memblock_free tests
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
tools/include/linux/atomic.h | 4 +
tools/include/linux/cache.h | 10 +
tools/include/linux/debugfs.h | 5 +
tools/include/linux/gfp.h | 28 +
tools/include/linux/io.h | 5 +
tools/include/linux/kernel.h | 6 +
tools/include/linux/mm.h | 42 +
tools/include/linux/pfn.h | 10 +
.../radix-tree => include}/linux/slab.h | 25 +-
tools/include/linux/types.h | 6 +
tools/lib/slab.c | 38 +
tools/testing/memblock/.gitignore | 6 +
tools/testing/memblock/Makefile | 53 ++
tools/testing/memblock/asm/dma.h | 5 +
tools/testing/memblock/internal.h | 12 +
tools/testing/memblock/lib/slab.c | 9 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/init.h | 34 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/kernel.h | 12 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/kmemleak.h | 18 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 19 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/mmzone.h | 35 +
tools/testing/memblock/linux/printk.h | 25 +
tools/testing/memblock/main.c | 8 +
tools/testing/memblock/mmzone.c | 20 +
.../testing/memblock/scripts/Makefile.include | 17 +
tools/testing/memblock/tests/basic_api.c | 896 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/memblock/tests/basic_api.h | 10 +
tools/testing/memblock/tests/common.c | 27 +
tools/testing/memblock/tests/common.h | 15 +
tools/testing/radix-tree/Makefile | 3 +-
tools/testing/radix-tree/linux.c | 27 -
tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/gfp.h | 33 -
33 files changed, 1396 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/cache.h
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/debugfs.h
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/io.h
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/mm.h
create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/pfn.h
rename tools/{testing/radix-tree => include}/linux/slab.h (61%)
create mode 100644 tools/lib/slab.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/.gitignore
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/Makefile
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/asm/dma.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/internal.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/lib/slab.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/init.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/kernel.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/kmemleak.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/memory_hotplug.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/mmzone.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/linux/printk.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/main.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/mmzone.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/scripts/Makefile.include
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/tests/basic_api.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/tests/basic_api.h
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/tests/common.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/memblock/tests/common.h
delete mode 100644 tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/gfp.h
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