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[v3,3/4] syscalls/msgstress03: fix fork failure on small memory systems

Message ID 20210623135912.81156-4-krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com
State Superseded
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Series syscalls/msgstress: fixes for small systems | expand

Commit Message

Krzysztof Kozlowski June 23, 2021, 1:59 p.m. UTC 
Running syscalls/msgstress03 on a system with less than ~4 GB of RAM fails:

    msgstress03    1  TFAIL  :  msgstress03.c:155: 	Fork failed (may be OK if under stress)

In dmesg:

    LTP: starting msgstress03
    cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-1.scope

The reason is cgroups pid limit set by systemd user.slice.  The limit is
set for login session, also for root user.  For example on 2 GB RAM
machine it is set as:
    /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/user.slice/user-0.slice/pids.max:5207

Read the maximum number of pids and adjust the test limit.  For 2 GB RAM
machine with systemd this will result in:

    msgstress03    0  TINFO  :  Found limit of processes 5056 (from /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/user.slice/user-1000.slice/pids.max)
    msgstress03    0  TINFO  :  Requested number of processes higher than user session limit (10000 > 4556), setting to 4556

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>
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 .../kernel/syscalls/ipc/msgstress/msgstress03.c   | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/msgstress/msgstress03.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/msgstress/msgstress03.c
index 294b401b1b38..18e50e35ee07 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/msgstress/msgstress03.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/msgstress/msgstress03.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@  static void usage(void)
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-	int i, j, ok, pid;
+	int i, j, ok, pid, free_pids;
 	int count, status;
 	struct sigaction act;
 
@@ -109,6 +109,19 @@  int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		}
 	}
 
+	free_pids = tst_get_free_pids(cleanup);
+	if (free_pids < 0) {
+		tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup, "Can't obtain free_pid count");
+	} else if (!free_pids) {
+		tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup, "No free pids");
+	}
+	if (nprocs >= free_pids) {
+		tst_resm(TINFO,
+			 "Requested number of processes higher than limit (%d > %d), "
+			 "setting to %d", nprocs, free_pids, free_pids);
+		nprocs = free_pids;
+	}
+
 	srand(getpid());
 	tid = -1;