The selftest started failing since commit e93d2521b27f ("x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping") was merged. While debugging I stumbled upon some memory usage optimizations.
With these test now runs on a VM with only 60MiB of memory.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de --- Changes in v3: - Pick up review tags - Fix naming around PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME helper functions - Skip selftest if PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME is not supported - Check for VM_IO instead of [vvar name prefix - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110-virtual_address_range-tests-v2-0-262a2bf3...
Changes in v2: - Drop /dev/null usage - Avoid overcommit restrictions by dropping PROT_WRITE - Avoid high memory usage due to PTEs - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107-virtual_address_range-tests-v1-0-3834a2fb...
--- Thomas Weißschuh (4): selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Unmap chunks after validation selftests/mm: vm_util: Split up /proc/self/smaps parsing selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
tools/testing/selftests/mm/config | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c | 41 ++++++++++++-- tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++----- tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 7793bee8fed2027eb15219014de6fb0dc15d4a03 change-id: 20250107-virtual_address_range-tests-95843766fa97
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