From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
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Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
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Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v1 1/5] selftests/mm: skip COW tmpfile cases when fallocate() is unsupported
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:11:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260722091219.61504-2-usama.anjum@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260722091219.61504-1-usama.anjum@arm.com>
The tmpfile-backed COW cases allocate a one-page file with fallocate()
before exercising private and shared mappings. When the filesystem
backing tmpfile() does not implement fallocate(), setup fails with
EOPNOTSUPP and no COW behavior is exercised.
This occurs when the temporary directory resides on a filesystem with
limited allocation support, such as NFSv3. Reporting a failure adds
noise because the test prerequisite is absent rather than the COW
implementation being broken.
Report EOPNOTSUPP as a skip. Continue treating every other fallocate()
error as a failure so unexpected setup regressions remain visible.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c
index 0c627ea89ff7b..c1b8920e29342 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c
@@ -1718,8 +1718,13 @@ static void run_with_tmpfile(non_anon_test_fn fn, const char *desc)
/* File consists of a single page filled with zeroes. */
if (fallocate(fd, 0, 0, pagesize)) {
- ksft_perror("fallocate() failed");
- log_test_result(KSFT_FAIL);
+ if (errno == EOPNOTSUPP) {
+ ksft_print_msg("fallocate() not supported by filesystem\n");
+ log_test_result(KSFT_SKIP);
+ } else {
+ ksft_perror("fallocate() failed");
+ log_test_result(KSFT_FAIL);
+ }
goto close;
}
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-22 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-22 9:11 [PATCH RESEND v1 0/5] selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-22 9:11 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum [this message]
2026-07-23 6:27 ` [PATCH RESEND v1 1/5] selftests/mm: skip COW tmpfile cases when fallocate() is unsupported Sarthak Sharma
2026-07-22 9:11 ` [PATCH RESEND v1 2/5] selftests/mm: skip guard hole-punch test if MADV_REMOVE " Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-23 6:52 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-07-22 9:11 ` [PATCH RESEND v1 3/5] selftests/mm: skip khugepaged swap tests without swap Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-22 12:16 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-07-22 14:05 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-23 5:08 ` Sarthak Sharma
2026-07-23 11:36 ` Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-22 9:11 ` [PATCH RESEND v1 4/5] selftests/mm: skip page-cache hwpoison tests on NFS Muhammad Usama Anjum
2026-07-22 9:11 ` [PATCH RESEND v1 5/5] selftests/mm: retry migration failures for the full runtime Muhammad Usama Anjum
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