maint: use adaptive approach for `ulimit -v` based tests

When configured with either 'symlinks' or 'shebangs' as value for
the --enable-single-binary option, tests based on `ulimit -v` are
skipped.  The reason is that the multicall 'coreutils' binary requires
much more memory due to shared libraries being loaded, and the size of
the 'date' binary (~290KiB) compared to the multicall binary (~5MiB),
of course.  Finally, in the case of 'shebangs', the starting shell
requires more memory, too

Instead of using hard-coded values for the memory limit, use an
adaptive approach: first determine the amount of memory for a similar,
yet more trivial invocation of the command, and then do the real test
run using that limit (plus some buffer in some cases).

* init.cfg (require_ulimit_v_): Remove function.
(get_min_ulimit_v_): Add function to determine the minimum memory limit
required for a given command in an adaptive way.
* cfg.mk (sc_prohibit_test_ulimit_without_require_): Change the name
of the above function in the syntax-check rule.
* tests/cp/link-heap.sh: Use the above function to determine the
minimum memory required to run a command simpler than in the real test
run.  Use that limit plus a buffer there.  While at it, change to list
of commands in the subshell to fail also if the beginning `ulimit -v`
fails.
* tests/dd/no-allocate.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/csplit-heap.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/cut-huge-range.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/head-c.sh: Likewise.
* tests/misc/printf-surprise.sh: Likewise.
* tests/split/line-bytes.sh: Likewise.
* tests/rm/many-dir-entries-vs-OOM.sh: Likewise - doing it separately
for each program under test.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tests/dd/no-allocate.sh b/tests/dd/no-allocate.sh
index 99e0542ac..d122e3544 100755
--- a/tests/dd/no-allocate.sh
+++ b/tests/dd/no-allocate.sh
@@ -18,12 +18,17 @@
 
 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
 print_ver_ dd
-require_ulimit_v_
+
+# Determine basic amount of memory needed.
+echo . > f || framework_failure_
+vm=$(get_min_ulimit_v_ dd if=f of=f2 status=none) \
+  || skip_ "this shell lacks ulimit support"
+rm -f f || framework_failure_
 
 # count and skip are zero, we don't need to allocate memory
-(ulimit -v 20000; dd  bs=30M count=0) || fail=1
-(ulimit -v 20000; dd ibs=30M count=0) || fail=1
-(ulimit -v 20000; dd obs=30M count=0) || fail=1
+(ulimit -v $vm && dd  bs=30M count=0) || fail=1
+(ulimit -v $vm && dd ibs=30M count=0) || fail=1
+(ulimit -v $vm && dd obs=30M count=0) || fail=1
 
 check_dd_seek_alloc() {
   local file="$1"
@@ -38,7 +43,8 @@ check_dd_seek_alloc() {
   timeout 10 dd count=1 if=/dev/zero of=tape&
 
   # Allocate buffer and read from the "tape"
-  (ulimit -v 20000; timeout 10 dd $dd_buf=30M $dd_op=1 count=0 $dd_file=tape)
+  (ulimit -v $(($vm+4000)) \
+    && timeout 10 dd $dd_buf=30M $dd_op=1 count=0 $dd_file=tape)
   local ret=$?
 
   # Be defensive in case the tape reader is blocked for some reason