On Wed, Dec 03, 2025 at 07:56:30PM +0800, Guopeng Zhang <[email protected]> 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]> > Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> > --- > .../selftests/cgroup/test_memcontrol.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Acked-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]>
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