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selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test
authorDavid Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:01:55 +0000 (12:01 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:37:36 +0000 (11:37 -0700)
commitcc13a7a618fe8354f16d74c06aaf9565a68e9ebd
tree2de495b4a7e785c1d6791a4a65b823111cf31523
parent6f64c06f43098ea0aa0a67d0ad15124b5d2ba0fe
selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test

The droppable test currently relies on creating memory pressure in a child
process to trigger dropping the droppable pages.

That not only takes a long time on some machines (allocating and filling
all that memory), on large machines this will not work as we hardcode the
area size to 134217728 bytes.

...  further, we rely on timeouts to detect that memory was not dropped,
which is really suboptimal.

Instead, let's just use MADV_PAGEOUT on a 2 MiB region.  MADV_PAGEOUT
works with droppable memory even without swap.

There is the low chance of MADV_PAGEOUT failing to drop a page because of
speculative references.  We'll wait 1s and retry 10 times to rule that
unlikely case out as best as we can.

On a machine without swap:

$ ./droppable
TAP version 13
1..1
ok 1 madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) behavior
# Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260611-droppable_test-v1-1-b6a73d99f658@kernel.org
Fixes: 9651fcedf7b9 ("mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always lazily freeable mappings")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV <Aishwarya.TCV@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
tools/testing/selftests/mm/droppable.c