>> + /*
>> + * Speculative reference can temporarily prevent some
>> + * pages from getting dropped. So sleep and retry.
>> + *
>> + * If a page is not droppable for 10s, something
>> + * is seriously messed up and we want to fail.
>> + */
>> + if (dropped)
>> + break;
>> + sleep(1);
>> }
>> - kill(child, SIGTERM);
>>
>> - ksft_test_result_pass("MAP_DROPPABLE: PASS\n");
>> - exit(KSFT_PASS);
>> + ksft_test_result(dropped, "madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) behavior\n");
>
> You meant "MAP_DROPPABLE" behaviour? Perhaps that can be folded in.
No, I did mean "madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT)" behaves as expected with droppable pages.
Reasoning being that we might want to add some other tests in the future that
trigger reclaim differently.
Thanks!
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Cheers,
David
