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selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh: add waits with timeout helper
authorLi Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:26:39 +0000 (20:26 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:24:51 +0000 (19:24 -0800)
commitb618876f2e7055160cc5b98b4ff5cd8917e7b49e
tree75103bd9dff2ea5709a444dd2b61cd8e1f004f39
parent1aa1dd9cc595917882fb6db67725442956f79607
selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh: add waits with timeout helper

The hugetlb cgroup usage wait loops in charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh were
unbounded and could hang forever if the expected cgroup file value never
appears (e.g.  due to write_to_hugetlbfs in Error mapping).

=== Error log ===
  # uname -r
  6.12.0-xxx.el10.aarch64+64k

  # ls /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-*
  hugepages-16777216kB/  hugepages-2048kB/  hugepages-524288kB/

  #./charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh -cgroup-v2
  # -----------------------------------------
  ...
  # nr hugepages = 10
  # writing cgroup limit: 5368709120
  # writing reseravation limit: 5368709120
  ...
  # write_to_hugetlbfs: Error mapping the file: Cannot allocate memory
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  # Waiting for hugetlb memory reservation to reach size 2684354560.
  # 0
  ...

Introduce a small helper, wait_for_file_value(), and use it for:
  - waiting for reservation usage to drop to 0,
  - waiting for reservation usage to reach a given size,
  - waiting for fault usage to reach a given size.

This makes the waits consistent and adds a hard timeout (60 tries with 1s
sleep) so the test fails instead of stalling indefinitely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251221122639.3168038-4-liwang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/mm/charge_reserved_hugetlb.sh