T7658: Fix default max-map-count and add smoketest for this parameter

In the code we have the restriction not to decrease values in host-resources section. We need to skip this smoketest for now until we remove the restriction because it will always fail

Author: natali-rs1985

interface-definitions/include/vpp_host_resources.xml.i

@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
             <properties>
                 <help>Maximum number of memory map areas a process may have</help>
                 <valueHelp>
-                    <format>u32:65535-2147483647</format>
+                    <format>u32:65530-2147483647</format>
                     <description>Areas count</description>
                 </valueHelp>
                 <constraint>
-                    <validator name="numeric" argument="--range 65535-2147483647"/>
+                    <validator name="numeric" argument="--range 65530-2147483647"/>
                 </constraint>
             </properties>
-            <defaultValue>65535</defaultValue>
+            <defaultValue>65530</defaultValue>
         </leafNode>
         <leafNode name="shmmax">
             <properties>

smoketest/scripts/cli/test_vpp.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 from vyos.utils.process import process_named_running
 from vyos.utils.file import read_file
 from vyos.utils.process import rc_cmd
+from vyos.utils.system import sysctl_read
 from vyos.vpp.utils import human_page_memory_to_bytes
 
 sys.path.append(os.getenv('vyos_completion_dir'))
@@ -1393,6 +1394,28 @@ def test_17_vpp_nat(self):
         _, out = rc_cmd('sudo vppctl show nat44 summary')
         self.assertIn(f'max translations per thread: {sess_limit} fib 0', out)
 
+    @unittest.skip(
+        'Skipping... it will always fail due to the restriction of not to decrease values in host-resources section'
+    )
+    def test_18_vpp_host_resources(self):
+        max_map_count = '100000'
+        hr_path = base_path + ['settings', 'host-resources']
+
+        # Check if max-map-count has default value
+        self.assertEqual(sysctl_read('vm.max_map_count'), '65530')
+
+        # Change max-map-count and check
+        self.cli_set(hr_path + ['max-map-count', max_map_count])
+        self.cli_commit()
+
+        self.assertEqual(sysctl_read('vm.max_map_count'), max_map_count)
+
+        # We expect max-map-count will return to default '65530'
+        self.cli_delete(hr_path + ['max-map-count'])
+        self.cli_commit()
+
+        self.assertEqual(sysctl_read('vm.max_map_count'), '65530')
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main(verbosity=2)