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1 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
2 /*
3  * Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC <mdoucha@suse.cz>
4  */
5 
6 #ifndef TST_MEMUTILS_H__
7 #define TST_MEMUTILS_H__
8 
9 /*
10  * Fill up to maxsize physical memory with fillchar, then free it for reuse.
11  * If maxsize is zero, fill as much memory as possible. This function is
12  * intended for data disclosure vulnerability tests to reduce the probability
13  * that a vulnerable kernel will leak a block of memory that was full of
14  * zeroes by chance.
15  *
16  * The function keeps a safety margin to avoid invoking OOM killer and
17  * respects the limitations of available address space. (Less than 3GB can be
18  * polluted on a 32bit system regardless of available physical RAM.)
19  */
20 void tst_pollute_memory(size_t maxsize, int fillchar);
21 
22 /*
23  * Read the value of MemAvailable from /proc/meminfo, if no support on
24  * older kernels, return 'MemFree + Cached' for instead.
25  */
26 long long tst_available_mem(void);
27 
28 /*
29  * Enable OOM protection to prevent process($PID) being killed by OOM Killer.
30  *   echo -1000 >/proc/$PID/oom_score_adj
31  *
32  * If the pid is 0 which means it will set on current(self) process.
33  *
34  * Unless the process has CAP_SYS_RESOURCE this call will be no-op because
35  * setting adj value < 0 requires it.
36  *
37  * CAP_SYS_RESOURCE:
38  *   set /proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj to a value lower than the value last set
39  *   by a process with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
40  *
41  * Note:
42  *  This exported tst_enable_oom_protection function can be used at anywhere
43  *  you want to protect, but please remember that if you do enable protection
44  *  on a process($PID) that all the children will inherit its score and be
45  *  ignored by OOM Killer as well. So that's why tst_disable_oom_protection()
46  *  to be used in combination.
47  */
48 void tst_enable_oom_protection(pid_t pid);
49 
50 /*
51  * Disable the OOM protection for the process($PID).
52  *   echo 0 >/proc/$PID/oom_score_adj
53  */
54 void tst_disable_oom_protection(pid_t pid);
55 
56 #endif /* TST_MEMUTILS_H__ */
57