Re: [PATCH 5/5] cgroup: Fix racy check in alloc_pagecache_max_30M() helper function

From: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
To: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@kernel.org,
	shakeelb@google.com, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] cgroup: Fix racy check in alloc_pagecache_max_30M() helper function
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:56:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmNAni3YH2fWFrSZ@carbon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220422155728.3055914-6-void@manifault.com>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:57:29AM -0700, David Vernet wrote:
> alloc_pagecache_max_30M() in the cgroup memcg tests performs a 50MB
> pagecache allocation, which it expects to be capped at 30MB due to the
> calling process having a memory.high setting of 30MB. After the allocation,
> the function contains a check that verifies that MB(29) < memory.current <=
> MB(30). This check can actually fail non-deterministically.
> 
> The testcases that use this function are test_memcg_high() and
> test_memcg_max(), which set memory.min and memory.max to 30MB respectively
> for the cgroup under test. The allocation can slightly exceed this number
> in both cases, and for memory.max, the process performing the allocation
> will not have the OOM killer invoked as it's performing a pagecache
> allocation.  This patchset therefore updates the above check to instead use
> the verify_close() helper function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>

Thanks, David!