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| author | Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com> | 2026-06-08 13:39:34 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-06-17 15:37:46 -0700 |
| commit | c7fdbc2c2f26b9c397eb3aad2fdc54dbd85f68e1 (patch) | |
| tree | 8352f68088de6e31d51366ebdfbadfbf2bc8f214 | |
| parent | f2737dc40d2ef3e9f3f9395d61f53f6668306a71 (diff) | |
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selftests/uevent: increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to avoid ENOBUFS on busy systems
The kselftests case uevent.uevent_filtering fails reproducibly on busy
systems (e.g. Intel EMR / AMD servers) with:
No buffer space available - Failed to receive uevent
The listener binds the NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT socket to all 32 multicast
groups (nl_groups = -1) but only sets SO_RCVBUF to 4 KiB
(__UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE = 2048 * 2). On hosts with many devices, the kernel
and userspace daemons (udev/systemd) constantly emit uevents on multiple
groups, plus the test itself triggers 10 add events in a row. The 4 KiB
receive buffer overflows before the listener can drain it, recvmsg()
returns -ENOBUFS, and the test bails out as failure.
Increase __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE to 1 MiB so the receive buffer is large
enough to absorb the burst of uevents on busy systems. After this change
the test passes consistently across dozens of runs on Intel EMR and AMD
platforms.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260608053934.4059533-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/testing/selftests/uevent/uevent_filtering.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/uevent/uevent_filtering.c b/tools/testing/selftests/uevent/uevent_filtering.c index 974b076f9235..33a09f66d7e2 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/uevent/uevent_filtering.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/uevent/uevent_filtering.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ #include "kselftest_harness.h" #define __DEV_FULL "/sys/devices/virtual/mem/full/uevent" -#define __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE (2048 * 2) +#define __UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE (1024 * 1024) #define __UEVENT_HEADER "add@/devices/virtual/mem/full" #define __UEVENT_HEADER_LEN sizeof("add@/devices/virtual/mem/full") #define __UEVENT_LISTEN_ALL -1 |