Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftsets/bpf: Retry map update on helper_fill_hashmap()

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 00:30:29 EST


Hello:

This patch was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:07:03 +0200 you wrote:
> helper_fill_hashmap() is used also on parallel and stress map tests.
> Those are consistently failing with ENOMEM on kernels built with
> PREEMPT_RT if preallocation is disabled. The failure is transient and
> only called by the memory cache refill running in a preemptible
> irq_work, which can easily stall in case of contention.
>
> Use a retriable update in those cases to handle transient ENOMEM and
> make the test more stable also on PREEMPT_RT.
> Also fix the sign of the value printed in case of error (strerror()
> expects a positive errno while updates return it negative).
>
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
- [bpf-next] selftsets/bpf: Retry map update on helper_fill_hashmap()
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/1f32c0d619d9

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