selftests/mm: new test that steals pages
This test stresses the race between of madvise(DONTNEED), a page fault and a parallel huge page mmap, which should fail due to lack of available page available for mapping. This test case must run on a system with one and only one huge page available. # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages During setup, the test allocates the only available page, and starts three threads: - thread 1: * madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) on the allocated huge page - thread 2: * Write to the allocated huge page - thread 3: * Tries to allocated (steal) an extra huge page (which is not available) thread 3 should never succeed in the allocation, since the only huge page was never unmapped, and should be reserved. Touching the old page after thread3 allocation will raise a SIGBUS. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240105155419.1939484-2-leitao@debian.orgSigned-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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