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2016-06-27selftests/vm: write strlen length instead of sizeof to nr_hugepagesYannick Brosseau1-5/+5
When setting back the initial value to nr_hugepages, the test was writing a length sizeof of the string and checking that strlen was writen. Since those values are not the same, use strlen in both place instead. Also make the error messages more explicit to help in future debugging. Signed-off-by: Yannick Brosseau <scientist@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
2015-05-26Test compaction of mlocked memorySri Jayaramappa1-0/+225
Commit commit 5bbe3547aa3b ("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>