From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 00/10] kmod: stress test driver, few fixes and enhancements
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 20:10:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111191036.GP13946@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161208184801.1689-1-mcgrof@kernel.org>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:47:51AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Upon running into an old kmod v19 issue with mount (get_fs_type()) a few of us
> hunted for the cause of the issue. Although the issue ended up being a
> userspace issue, a stress test driver was written to help reproduce the issue,
> and along the way a few other fixes and sanity checks were implemented.
>
> I've taken the time to generalize the stress test driver as a kselftest driver
> with a 9 test cases. The last two test cases reveal an existing issue which
> is not yet addressed upstream, even if you have kmod v19 present. A fix is
> proposed in the last patch. Orignally we had discarded this patch as too
> complex due to the alias handling, but upon further analysis of test cases
> and memory pressure issues, it seems worth considering. Other than the
> last patch I don't think much of the other patches are controversial, but
> sending as RFC first just in case.
>
> If its not clear, an end goal here is to make module loading a bit more
> deterministic with stronger sanity checks and stress tests. Please note,
> the stress test diver requires 4 GiB of RAM to run all tests without running
> out of memory. A lot of this has to do with the memory requirements needed
> for a dynamic test for multiple threads, but note that the final memory
> pressure and OOMs actually don't come from this allocation, but instead
> from many finit_module() calls, this consumes quite a bit of memory, specially
> if you have a lot of dependencies which also need to be loaded prior to
> your needed module -- as is the case for filesystem drivers.
>
> These patches are available on my linux-next git-tree on my branch
> 20161208-kmod-test-driver-try2 [0], which is based on linux-next tag
> next-20161208. Patches are also available based on v4.9-rc8 [1] for
> those looking for a bit more stable tree given x86_64 on linux-next is
> hosed at the moment.
>
> Since kmod.c doesn't seem to get much love, and since I've been digging
> quite a bit into it for other users (firmware) I suppose I could volunteer
> myself to maintain this code as well, unless there are oppositions to this.
>
> [0] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux-next.git/log/?h=20161208-kmod-test-driver-try2
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git/log/?h=20161208-kmod-test-driver
>
> Luis R. Rodriguez (10):
> kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader
> module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures
> kmod: add dynamic max concurrent thread count
> kmod: provide wrappers for kmod_concurrent inc/dec
> kmod: return -EBUSY if modprobe limit is reached
> kmod: provide sanity check on kmod_concurrent access
> kmod: use simplified rate limit printk
> sysctl: add support for unsigned int properly
> kmod: add helpers for getting kmod count and limit
> kmod: add a sanity check on module loading
>
A lot of good discussions have come up form this, and so also
a few more patches. I'm going to split up the work into changes
which make sense now and leave debug work for a follow up later.
Luis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-08 18:47 [RFC 00/10] kmod: stress test driver, few fixes and enhancements Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 18:47 ` [RFC 01/10] kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:24 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-13 21:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-16 7:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 02/10] module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:30 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 21:17 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-09 17:06 ` Miroslav Benes
2016-12-16 8:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 18:46 ` Aaron Tomlin
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 03/10] kmod: add dynamic max concurrent thread count Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:28 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 15:38 ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16 8:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-10 19:24 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 04/10] kmod: provide wrappers for kmod_concurrent inc/dec Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 20:29 ` Kees Cook
2016-12-08 21:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 12:46 ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16 8:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-22 4:48 ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-06 20:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-10 18:57 ` [RFC 04/10] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-11 20:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-16 18:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-05-18 2:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-22 5:07 ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-10 20:28 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 05/10] kmod: return -EBUSY if modprobe limit is reached Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:48 ` [RFC 06/10] kmod: provide sanity check on kmod_concurrent access Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 16:08 ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-14 17:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 12:57 ` Petr Mladek
2017-01-10 20:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 07/10] kmod: use simplified rate limit printk Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-14 16:23 ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-14 16:41 ` Joe Perches
2016-12-16 8:44 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 08/10] sysctl: add support for unsigned int properly Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 09/10] kmod: add helpers for getting kmod count and limit Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 16:56 ` Petr Mladek
2016-12-16 7:57 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-11 18:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-08 19:49 ` [RFC 10/10] kmod: add a sanity check on module loading Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-09 20:03 ` Martin Wilck
2016-12-09 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-12-15 18:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-15 0:27 ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-16 8:31 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-17 3:54 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <CAB=NE6VvuA9a6hf6yoopGfUxVJQM5HyV5bNzUdsEtUV0UhbG-g@mail.gmail.com>
2016-12-20 0:53 ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-20 18:52 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-12-21 2:21 ` Rusty Russell
2016-12-21 13:08 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-03 0:04 ` Rusty Russell
2017-01-06 20:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-06 21:53 ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-09 20:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <87bmvgax51.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
2017-01-09 19:56 ` [RFC 10/10] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2017-01-06 21:03 ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-04 2:47 ` Jessica Yu
2017-01-11 19:10 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
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