Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/nolibc: Add a very basic test for fallocate()

["Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>]

On 2026-05-01 01:41:25+0900, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> 1: Create a tmp file, fallocate() to make it a bit bigger, check the
> size is what was expected.
> 
> 2: Try to fallocate() (1 << 20), this should work.
> 
> 3: Try to fallocate() (1 << 52), this should cause ENOSPC or EFBIG.
> 
> 2 and 3 are basically to make sure if the offset or size are split
> into a pair of registers for the syscall that we are passing them
> the correct way around.
> 
> sparc32 seems to return EOPNOTSUPP for fallocate() so skip the
> test there.

This is because the kernel created in our testsuite does not enable
CONFIG_TMPFS, falling back to ramfs/rootfs for /tmp. We should
gracefully handle EOPNOTSUPP from fallocate() but also enable
CONFIG_TMPFS for our test kernels to increase the test coverage.

> Signed-off-by: Daniel Palmer <daniel@thingy.jp>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 69 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c
> index 08610cacf030..a586e9d9ede2 100644

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