criu/test
Adrian Reber cb8d1bec11 zdtm: retry pthread_create on EAGAIN in thread-bomb
The thread-bomb test frequently fails during setup with
pthread_create() returning EAGAIN (errno 11).  The test creates
1024 threads in a tight loop from main(), and each of those
threads immediately spawns another thread that joins its
predecessor, resulting in a burst of ~2048 simultaneous thread
creations with 64KB stacks.

This burst causes transient EAGAIN errors from clone() due to
kernel resource pressure (VMA allocator contention, temporary
memory fragmentation, etc.).  The failure is not related to hard
resource limits — ulimit, threads-max, max_map_count and cgroup
pids limits are all well above the required values.  The failure
occurs both inside and outside containers and is worse on hosts
with fewer resources.

Measured failure rates on a 16GB / 9-CPU host:
  Before fix: 65% failure rate (13/20 outside container)
  After fix:  ~2.5% failure rate (1/40), and that failure was
              a C/R issue, not a pthread_create EAGAIN

Fix this by adding a pthread_create_retry() wrapper that retries
pthread_create() up to 50 times with a 10ms delay when it returns
EAGAIN.  This gives the kernel time to reclaim resources between
attempts while keeping the total worst-case retry time under one
second per thread creation.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
2026-06-10 12:29:26 +01:00
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compel Run 'make indent' on header files 2021-09-03 10:31:00 -07:00
cuda-checkpoint test: add get-state to mocked cuda-checkpoint tool 2025-03-21 12:40:31 -07:00
exhaustive make: remove checks for python 2 binary 2023-10-22 13:29:25 -07:00
inhfd Remove travis-ci leftovers 2025-11-02 07:48:23 -08:00
javaTests test/javaTests: update org.testng:testng (Maven) 2023-04-15 21:17:21 -07:00
jenkins compel: remove hardware breakpoint usage 2026-03-08 23:01:54 -07:00
libfault zdtm: add support for LD_PRELOAD tests 2024-09-11 16:02:11 -07:00
others test/bers: use size_t format specifiers for file counters 2026-04-16 10:41:44 -07:00
pki test: create new tls certificates 2021-09-03 10:31:00 -07:00
plugins zdtm: add inventory test plugins 2025-03-21 12:40:31 -07:00
zdtm zdtm: retry pthread_create on EAGAIN in thread-bomb 2026-06-10 12:29:26 +01:00
.gitignore zdtm: Add javaTests output to .gitignore 2021-09-03 10:31:00 -07:00
abrt.sh test/abrt: skip core dumps from the seccomp_filter test 2019-04-20 20:25:26 -07:00
crit-recode.py make: remove checks for python 2 binary 2023-10-22 13:29:25 -07:00
empty-netns-prep.sh test: don't use nsenter in tests 2017-05-19 09:17:20 +03:00
groups.desc zdtm.py: Generator of groups of tests 2015-12-08 14:54:41 +03:00
inhfd.desc zdtm.py: Add inhfd tests for --inherit-fd option 2015-10-19 12:42:01 +03:00
Makefile test/make: remove unused target 2024-09-11 16:02:11 -07:00
pycriu lib: use separate packages for pycriu and crit 2023-11-27 16:47:16 -08:00
umount2.c zdtm: add a program to umount a test root 2016-09-26 15:42:40 +03:00
zdtm.desc test: Get rid of live directory 2016-02-20 13:40:52 +03:00
zdtm.py zdtm: fix TOCTOU race creating criu.tree directory 2026-03-17 22:53:45 -07:00
zdtm_ct.c zdtm: Update netns purpose comment in zdtm_ct. 2023-10-22 13:29:25 -07:00
zdtm_mount_cgroups zdtm: use unique holder for cgroups 2022-04-28 17:53:52 -07:00
zdtm_umount_cgroups zdtm: use unique holder for cgroups 2022-04-28 17:53:52 -07:00