test: switch TEST-55-OOMD stress-ng --vm-method to lfsr32

Commit 881e4717c7 ("test: pin stress-ng --vm-method to a portable
scalar method in TEST-55-OOMD") pinned --vm-method=zero-one with the
rationale that it is "a long-standing scalar method". That rationale is
wrong: stress_vm_zero_one() in stress-ng's stress-vm.c is declared

    static size_t TARGET_CLONES stress_vm_zero_one(...)

i.e. it carries the exact same TARGET_CLONES attribute as 33 of the 35
other vm methods. On x86_64 with GCC >=5, TARGET_CLONES expands (see
core-target-clones.h in stress-ng) to a target_clones attribute
including "arch=skylake-avx512", "arch=cooperlake", "arch=tigerlake",
"arch=sapphirerapids", and several other AVX-512-bearing arch variants,
plus "default". GCC generates AVX-512 clones of stress_vm_zero_one() and
the IFUNC resolver picks them on any CPU that advertises AVX-512.

The only vm methods in stress-ng's registry whose function definitions
omit TARGET_CLONES entirely (and are therefore guaranteed not to
dispatch to an AVX-512 clone) are lfsr32 (portable, always registered)
and write64ds (x86_64-only, gated on HAVE_ASM_X86_MOVDIRI, i.e. Intel
Tremont / Tiger Lake+ MOVDIRI instruction).

Switch the four stress-ng --vm invocations in TEST-55-OOMD to
--vm-method=lfsr32 so the AVX-512 SIGILL on CPUs without AVX-512 (e.g.
AMD Zen 1-3) can no longer occur regardless of compiler version,
optimization level, or stress-ng package build.

Follow-up for 881e4717c7

Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Luca Boccassi
2026-05-19 22:53:59 +01:00
parent fc0bd373ef
commit 4ac2369728
3 changed files with 12 additions and 17 deletions
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Description=Create a lot of memory pressure
# to throttle and be put under heavy pressure.
MemoryHigh=3M
Slice=TEST-55-OOMD-workload.slice
# Pin --vm-method to a portable method (zero-one): the default 'all' cycles
# through methods, including newer ones using AVX-512 instructions that SIGILL
# on CPUs without AVX-512 (e.g. AMD Zen 1-3), making the test flaky.
ExecStart=stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 200M --vm-keep --vm-method=zero-one
# Pin --vm-method=lfsr32: the only stress-ng vm method without TARGET_CLONES,
# so it can't dispatch to an AVX-512 clone and SIGILL on CPUs lacking it.
ExecStart=stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 200M --vm-keep --vm-method=lfsr32
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Description=Create some memory pressure
[Service]
MemoryHigh=12M
Slice=TEST-55-OOMD-workload.slice
# Pin --vm-method to a portable method (zero-one): the default 'all' cycles
# through methods, including newer ones using AVX-512 instructions that SIGILL
# on CPUs without AVX-512 (e.g. AMD Zen 1-3), making the test flaky.
ExecStart=stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 200M --vm-keep --vm-method=zero-one
# Pin --vm-method=lfsr32: the only stress-ng vm method without TARGET_CLONES,
# so it can't dispatch to an AVX-512 clone and SIGILL on CPUs lacking it.
ExecStart=stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 200M --vm-keep --vm-method=lfsr32
+6 -9
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@@ -366,13 +366,12 @@ EOF
systemctl reload systemd-oomd.service
# Run a transient service with OOMRules=testrule that generates memory pressure.
# Pin --vm-method to a portable method (zero-one): the default 'all' cycles
# through every method, including newer ones using AVX-512 instructions that
# SIGILL on CPUs without AVX-512 (e.g. AMD Zen 1-3), making the test flaky.
# Pin --vm-method=lfsr32: the only stress-ng vm method without TARGET_CLONES,
# so it can't dispatch to an AVX-512 clone and SIGILL on CPUs lacking it.
(! systemd-run --wait --unit=TEST-55-OOMD-testrules \
-p MemoryHigh=3M \
-p OOMRules=testrule \
stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 50M --vm-keep --vm-method=zero-one)
stress-ng --timeout 3m --vm 10 --vm-bytes 50M --vm-keep --vm-method=lfsr32)
# Verify in the journal that the rule triggered
journalctl --sync
@@ -457,14 +456,12 @@ EOF
# Start the unit without --wait so we can check mid-run state. The
# stress-ng timeout bounds the test if anything goes wrong.
# Pin --vm-method to a portable method (zero-one): the default 'all' cycles
# through every method, including newer ones using AVX-512 instructions that
# SIGILL on CPUs without AVX-512 (e.g. AMD Zen 1-3) and would cause stress-ng
# to exit before the 6 s wait below elapses, failing the ActiveState check.
# Pin --vm-method=lfsr32: the only stress-ng vm method without TARGET_CLONES,
# so it can't SIGILL on AVX-512-less CPUs and exit before the 6 s wait below.
systemd-run --unit=TEST-55-OOMD-slowrule \
-p MemoryHigh=3M \
-p OOMRules=slowrule \
stress-ng --timeout 15s --vm 10 --vm-bytes 50M --vm-keep --vm-method=zero-one
stress-ng --timeout 15s --vm 10 --vm-bytes 50M --vm-keep --vm-method=lfsr32
# Wait long enough for oomd's 1s rule-check loop to evaluate the condition
# many times. With LastingSec=1h the kill must not fire.