On 2025/11/24 20:38, Guopeng Zhang wrote:
test_memcg_sock() currently requires that memory.stat's "sock " counter
is exactly zero immediately after the TCP server exits. On a busy system
this assumption is too strict:

   - Socket memory may be freed with a small delay (e.g. RCU callbacks).
   - memcg statistics are updated asynchronously via the rstat flushing
     worker, so the "sock " value in memory.stat can stay non-zero for a
     short period of time even after all socket memory has been uncharged.

As a result, test_memcg_sock() can intermittently fail even though socket
memory accounting is working correctly.

Make the test more robust by polling memory.stat for the "sock "
counter and allowing it some time to drop to zero instead of checking
it only once. The timeout is set to 3 seconds to cover the periodic
rstat flush interval (FLUSH_TIME = 2*HZ by default) plus some
scheduling slack. If the counter does not become zero within the
timeout, the test still fails as before.

On my test system, running test_memcontrol 50 times produced:

   - Before this patch:  6/50 runs passed.
   - After this patch:  50/50 runs passed.

Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
---
  .../selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c        | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-
  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c 
b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c
index 4e1647568c5b..dda12e5c6457 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
  #include "kselftest.h"

This patch fails to apply to mm-new ...

Hmm, it expects #include "kselftest.h" here, but the tree uses
#include "../kselftest.h".

Which is odd, as that line hasn't been touched in years ...

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