Every arena reserves a 4GB kernel vmalloc region at creation, and on a KASAN build that eagerly populates ~512MB of shadow memory per arena. When several arena tests run in parallel their shadow adds up, exhausts the memory of a small CI VM and trips the OOM killer during map creation.
Make the dedicated arena tests (arena_* and libarena*) serial so they no longer pile up in the parallel phase. That alone brings the peak number of live arenas back within the CI memory budget. A few other tests such as verifier_arena*, stream and compute_live_registers create an arena too, but they run inside shared RUN_TESTS()/RUN() suites, so turning them serial would drag many unrelated subtests along with them. Leave those as-is. Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <[email protected]> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c | 2 +- 8 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c index d98577a6babc..1ad5d03d07ad 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_atomics.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void test_store_release(struct arena_atomics *skel) "store_release64_result"); } -void test_arena_atomics(void) +void serial_test_arena_atomics(void) { struct arena_atomics *skel; int err; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c index 4b4adb3f4b71..01fcf4965ea4 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_direct_value.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static void test_arena_direct_value_one_past_end(void) close(map_fd); } -void test_arena_direct_value(void) +void serial_test_arena_direct_value(void) { if (test__start_subtest("one_past_end")) test_arena_direct_value_one_past_end(); diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c index d69fd2465f53..91ccf0402980 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_htab.c @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static void test_arena_htab_asm(void) arena_htab_asm__destroy(skel); } -void test_arena_htab(void) +void serial_test_arena_htab(void) { if (test__start_subtest("arena_htab_llvm")) test_arena_htab_llvm(); diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c index 4f2866a615ce..2648e06f53d0 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_list.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void test_arena_list_add_del(int cnt, bool nonsleepable) arena_list__destroy(skel); } -void test_arena_list(void) +void serial_test_arena_list(void) { if (test__start_subtest("arena_list_1")) test_arena_list_add_del(1, false); diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c index acb9d53b5973..545b05d7a0aa 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_spin_lock.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void test_arena_spin_lock_size(int size) return; } -void test_arena_spin_lock(void) +void serial_test_arena_spin_lock(void) { repeat = 1000; if (test__start_subtest("arena_spin_lock_1")) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c index f81a0c066505..0c1c6cbfa0f1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_strsearch.c @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ static void test_arena_str(void) arena_strsearch__destroy(skel); } -void test_arena_strsearch(void) +void serial_test_arena_strsearch(void) { if (test__start_subtest("arena_strsearch")) test_arena_str(); diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c index ba5a5a50f7c0..df7e4b8dc394 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static void run_libarena_parallel_test(struct libarena *skel, struct bpf_program run_libarena_parallel_fini(skel, name, prefixlen); } -void test_libarena(void) +void serial_test_libarena(void) { struct arena_alloc_reserve_args args; struct libarena *skel; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c index f897405f701d..9c31b17dbf39 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/libarena_asan.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static void run_test(void) * Run the test depending on whether LLVM can compile arena ASAN * programs. */ -void test_libarena_asan(void) +void serial_test_libarena_asan(void) { #ifdef HAS_BPF_ARENA_ASAN run_test(); -- 2.43.0

