[PATCH v2] memcg/functional: fix memcg_failcnt intermittent timeout by disabling swap

Xuewen Wang <wangxuewen-UOlijcLmZ/[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 14:40:53 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ltp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
memcg_failcnt.sh tests the memory.failcnt counter by allocating
reclaimable memory (mmap-anon/mmap-file/shm) beyond a tiny cgroup
limit (1 page). It relies on the process being OOM-killed so that
signal_memcg_process()'s wait loop exits.

With swap enabled the kernel usually still OOM-kills the process,
but on arm64 reclaim (swap out) sometimes succeeds instead:
usage_in_bytes stays at the limit and the process keeps running,
so the wait loop times out (TBROK) intermittently.

Example failure on arm64 (kernel 6.6):
  memcg_failcnt 2 TBROK: timed out on memory.usage_in_bytes 4096 0 8192

Disable swap around the allocation and re-enable it afterwards,
mirroring what memcg_limit_in_bytes.sh already does for the same
reclaimable memory types.

Signed-off-by: Xuewen Wang <wangxuewen-UOlijcLmZ/[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop "2>/dev/null" from swapoff/swapon so that a failure to disable
  swap (or a missing swapoff binary) stays visible, instead of silently
  letting the intermittent timeout recur. Per the LTP AI review, the
  redirect hid the very error this fix relies on, and
  memcg_limit_in_bytes.sh does not redirect stderr either.
---
 .../controllers/memcg/functional/memcg_failcnt.sh     | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/controllers/memcg/functional/memcg_failcnt.sh b/testcases/kernel/controllers/memcg/functional/memcg_failcnt.sh
index 3a02d16c2..9ac3880f6 100755
--- a/testcases/kernel/controllers/memcg/functional/memcg_failcnt.sh
+++ b/testcases/kernel/controllers/memcg/functional/memcg_failcnt.sh
@@ -11,11 +11,20 @@
 MEMCG_TESTFUNC=do_test
 MEMCG_SHMMAX=1
 TST_TEST_DATA="--mmap-anon --mmap-file --shm"
+TST_CLEANUP=do_cleanup
+
+do_cleanup()
+{
+	memcg_cleanup
+	swapon -a
+}
 
 do_test()
 {
 	ROD echo $MEMORY_LIMIT \> memory.limit_in_bytes
 
+	swapoff -a
+
 	start_memcg_process $2 -s ${MEMORY_TO_ALLOCATE}
 	ROD echo $MEMCG_PROCESS_PID \> tasks
 
@@ -24,6 +33,8 @@ do_test()
 
 	stop_memcg_process
 
+	swapon -a
+
 	failcnt=$(cat memory.failcnt)
 	if [ $failcnt -gt 0 ]; then
 		tst_res TPASS "memory.failcnt is $failcnt, > 0 as expected"
-- 
2.25.1


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