[PATCH bpf-next 2/3] selftests/bpf: Run arena tests serially
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 10:58:03 EST
Every arena reserves a 4GB kernel vmalloc region at creation. On a KASAN
build that eagerly populates ~512MB of shadow memory per arena. Running the
arena tests in parallel keeps several arenas alive at once, which exhausts
the memory of a small CI VM and trips the OOM killer during map creation.
Make the arena tests serial so at most one arena is alive at a time.
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c | 2 +-
8 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c
index d98577a6babc..1ad5d03d07ad 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void test_store_release(struct arena_atomics *skel)
"store_release64_result");
}
-void test_arena_atomics(void)
+void serial_test_arena_atomics(void)
{
struct arena_atomics *skel;
int err;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c
index 4b4adb3f4b71..01fcf4965ea4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static void test_arena_direct_value_one_past_end(void)
close(map_fd);
}
-void test_arena_direct_value(void)
+void serial_test_arena_direct_value(void)
{
if (test__start_subtest("one_past_end"))
test_arena_direct_value_one_past_end();
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c
index d69fd2465f53..91ccf0402980 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void test_arena_htab_asm(void)
arena_htab_asm__destroy(skel);
}
-void test_arena_htab(void)
+void serial_test_arena_htab(void)
{
if (test__start_subtest("arena_htab_llvm"))
test_arena_htab_llvm();
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c
index 4f2866a615ce..2648e06f53d0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void test_arena_list_add_del(int cnt, bool nonsleepable)
arena_list__destroy(skel);
}
-void test_arena_list(void)
+void serial_test_arena_list(void)
{
if (test__start_subtest("arena_list_1"))
test_arena_list_add_del(1, false);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c
index acb9d53b5973..545b05d7a0aa 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void test_arena_spin_lock_size(int size)
return;
}
-void test_arena_spin_lock(void)
+void serial_test_arena_spin_lock(void)
{
repeat = 1000;
if (test__start_subtest("arena_spin_lock_1"))
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c
index f81a0c066505..0c1c6cbfa0f1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void test_arena_str(void)
arena_strsearch__destroy(skel);
}
-void test_arena_strsearch(void)
+void serial_test_arena_strsearch(void)
{
if (test__start_subtest("arena_strsearch"))
test_arena_str();
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c
index ba5a5a50f7c0..df7e4b8dc394 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static void run_libarena_parallel_test(struct libarena *skel, struct bpf_program
run_libarena_parallel_fini(skel, name, prefixlen);
}
-void test_libarena(void)
+void serial_test_libarena(void)
{
struct arena_alloc_reserve_args args;
struct libarena *skel;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c
index f897405f701d..9c31b17dbf39 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static void run_test(void)
* Run the test depending on whether LLVM can compile arena ASAN
* programs.
*/
-void test_libarena_asan(void)
+void serial_test_libarena_asan(void)
{
#ifdef HAS_BPF_ARENA_ASAN
run_test();
--
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