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| author | Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com> | 2025-09-24 00:17:00 +0530 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-09-28 11:51:32 -0700 |
| commit | 08ff89b5659d89966fc845ee5040051d318b8d01 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ffaff6f7faf1541a7857fbade10e3af6a0348db | |
| parent | 4d6fc29f36341d7795db1d1819b4c15fe9be7b23 (diff) | |
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
Add a new selftest to verify whether the `ksm_merging_pages` counter in
`mm_struct` is not inherited by a child process after fork. This helps
ensure correctness of KSM accounting across process creation.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7bb17d374133bd31a3e423aa9e46e1122e74971.1758648700.git.donettom@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c | 43 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c index 712f43c87736..ac136f04b8d6 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c @@ -602,6 +602,46 @@ unmap: munmap(map, size); } +static void test_fork_ksm_merging_page_count(void) +{ + const unsigned int size = 2 * MiB; + char *map; + pid_t child_pid; + int status; + + ksft_print_msg("[RUN] %s\n", __func__); + + map = mmap_and_merge_range(0xcf, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, KSM_MERGE_MADVISE); + if (map == MAP_FAILED) + return; + + child_pid = fork(); + if (!child_pid) { + init_global_file_handles(); + exit(ksm_get_self_merging_pages()); + } else if (child_pid < 0) { + ksft_test_result_fail("fork() failed\n"); + goto unmap; + } + + if (waitpid(child_pid, &status, 0) < 0) { + ksft_test_result_fail("waitpid() failed\n"); + goto unmap; + } + + status = WEXITSTATUS(status); + if (status) { + ksft_test_result_fail("ksm_merging_page in child: %d\n", status); + goto unmap; + } + + ksft_test_result_pass("ksm_merging_pages is not inherited after fork\n"); + +unmap: + ksm_stop(); + munmap(map, size); +} + static void init_global_file_handles(void) { mem_fd = open("/proc/self/mem", O_RDWR); @@ -620,7 +660,7 @@ static void init_global_file_handles(void) int main(int argc, char **argv) { - unsigned int tests = 8; + unsigned int tests = 9; int err; if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME)) { @@ -652,6 +692,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) test_prctl_fork(); test_prctl_fork_exec(); test_prctl_unmerge(); + test_fork_ksm_merging_page_count(); err = ksft_get_fail_cnt(); if (err) |