Test compaction of mlocked memory
Commit commit 5bbe3547 ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages") introduced a sysctl that allows userspace to enable scanning of locked pages for compaction. This patch introduces a new test which fragments main memory and attempts to allocate a number of huge pages to exercise this compaction logic. Tested on machines with up to 32 GB RAM. With the patch a much larger number of huge pages can be allocated than on the kernel without the patch. Example output: On a machine with 16 GB RAM: sudo make run_tests vm ... ----------------------- running compaction_test ----------------------- No of huge pages allocated = 3834 [PASS] ... Signed-off-by: Sri Jayaramappa <sjayaram@akamai.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
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