test_swapin_nozswap can hit OOM before reaching its assertions on some setups. The test currently sets memory.max=8M and then allocates/reads 32M with memory.zswap.max=0, which may over-constrain reclaim and kill the workload process. Raise memory.max to 24M so the workload can make forward progress, and lower the swap_peak expectation from 24M to 8M to keep the check robust across environments. The test intent is unchanged: verify that swapping happens while zswap remains unused when memory.zswap.max=0. === Error Logs === # ./test_zswap TAP version 13 1..7 ok 1 test_zswap_usage not ok 2 test_swapin_nozswap ... # dmesg [271641.879153] test_zswap invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 [271641.879168] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 177372 Comm: test_zswap Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.12.0-211.el10.ppc64le #1 VOLUNTARY [271641.879171] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW940.02 (UL940_041) hv:phyp pSeries [271641.879173] Call Trace: [271641.879174] [c00000037540f730] [c00000000127ec44] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xc4 (unreliable) [271641.879184] [c00000037540f760] [c0000000005cc594] dump_header+0x5c/0x1e4 [271641.879188] [c00000037540f7e0] [c0000000005cb464] oom_kill_process+0x324/0x3b0 [271641.879192] [c00000037540f860] [c0000000005cbe48] out_of_memory+0x118/0x420 [271641.879196] [c00000037540f8f0] [c00000000070d8ec] mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x18c/0x1b0 [271641.879200] [c00000037540f990] [c000000000713888] try_charge_memcg+0x598/0x890 [271641.879204] [c00000037540fa70] [c000000000713dbc] charge_memcg+0x5c/0x110 [271641.879207] [c00000037540faa0] [c0000000007159f8] __mem_cgroup_charge+0x48/0x120 [271641.879211] [c00000037540fae0] [c000000000641914] alloc_anon_folio+0x2b4/0x5a0 [271641.879215] [c00000037540fb60] [c000000000641d58] do_anonymous_page+0x158/0x6b0 [271641.879218] [c00000037540fbd0] [c000000000642f8c] __handle_mm_fault+0x4bc/0x910 [271641.879221] [c00000037540fcf0] [c000000000643500] handle_mm_fault+0x120/0x3c0 [271641.879224] [c00000037540fd40] [c00000000014bba0] ___do_page_fault+0x1c0/0x980 [271641.879228] [c00000037540fdf0] [c00000000014c44c] hash__do_page_fault+0x2c/0xc0 [271641.879232] [c00000037540fe20] [c0000000001565d8] do_hash_fault+0x128/0x1d0 [271641.879236] [c00000037540fe50] [c000000000008be0] data_access_common_virt+0x210/0x220 [271641.879548] Tasks state (memory values in pages): ... [271641.879550] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss rss_anon rss_file rss_shmem pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name [271641.879555] [ 177372] 0 177372 571 0 0 0 0 51200 96 0 test_zswap [271641.879562] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/no_zswap_test,task_memcg=/no_zswap_test,task=test_zswap,pid=177372,uid=0 [271641.879578] Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 177372 (test_zswap) total-vm:36544kB, anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:50kB oom_score_adj:0 Signed-off-by: Li Wang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Yosry Ahmed --- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c index ec64daaa2f5a..8bf5fc34bb23 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int test_swapin_nozswap(const char *root) goto out; if (cg_create(test_group)) goto out; - if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "8M")) + if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.max", "24M")) goto out; if (cg_write(test_group, "memory.zswap.max", "0")) goto out; @@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ static int test_swapin_nozswap(const char *root) goto out; } - if (swap_peak < MB(24)) { - ksft_print_msg("at least 24MB of memory should be swapped out\n"); + if (swap_peak < MB(8)) { + ksft_print_msg("at least 8MB of memory should be swapped out\n"); goto out; } -- 2.53.0