The kernel's default behaviour is to obstruct the allocation of high virtual address as it handles memory overcommit in a heuristic manner. Setting the parameter as OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS, ensures kernel isn't susceptible to the availability of a platform's physical memory when denying a memory allocation request.

Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Shuah Khan shuah@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chaitanya S Prakash chaitanyas.prakash@arm.com --- tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh index 8984e0bb58c7..c0f93b668c0c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh @@ -220,7 +220,15 @@ CATEGORY="mremap" run_test ./mremap_test CATEGORY="hugetlb" run_test ./thuge-gen

if [ $VADDR64 -ne 0 ]; then + + # set overcommit_policy as OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS so that kernel + # allows high virtual address allocation requests independent + # of platform's physical memory. + + prev_policy=$(cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory) + echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory CATEGORY="hugevm" run_test ./virtual_address_range + echo $prev_policy > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

# virtual address 128TB switch test CATEGORY="hugevm" run_test ./va_128TBswitch.sh