Re: [PATCH] generic/365: Fix false failure when mapping ends with free space

[Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>]

On 05/08/25 2:55 pm, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> If we have a small FS where the first free space mapping is also the
> last mapping of the FS, then the following sub-test fails:
> 
>    echo "test whatever came after freesp"
>    $XFS_IO_PROG -c "fsmap -d $((freesp_end + 2)) $((freesp_end + 3))" $SCRATCH_MNT
> 
> since there is nothing after the freespace. Fix this by punching a 1M
> hole in a 3M file to ensure that the first free space is always
> surrounded by allocated blocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>

I tested the patch on Power, and it resolves the test failures with a 
64k block size.

Tested-by: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.ibm.com>

SECTION       -- ext4_64k
RECREATING    -- ext4 on /dev/loop0
FSTYP         -- ext4
PLATFORM      -- Linux/ppc64le localhost 6.17.0-rc2-00060-g068a56e56fa8 
#2 SMP Thu Aug 21 16:28:18 IST 2025
MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -F -b 65536 /dev/loop1
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- -o block_validity /dev/loop1 /mnt/scratch

generic/365 1s ...  1s
Ran: generic/365
Passed all 1 tests

> ---
>   tests/generic/365 | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/generic/365 b/tests/generic/365
> index 36cb2530..bbadae71 100755
> --- a/tests/generic/365
> +++ b/tests/generic/365
> @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ if ((blksz < 2048)); then
>   	_notrun "test requires at least 4 bblocks per fsblock"
>   fi
>   
> +# This makes sure there is free space surrounded by allocated blocks, which
> +# is needed for some sub tests.
> +$XFS_IO_PROG -fc 'falloc 0 3M' -c 'fpunch 1M 1M' -c 'fsync' $SCRATCH_MNT/f
> +
>   $XFS_IO_PROG -c 'fsmap' $SCRATCH_MNT >> $seqres.full
>   
>   find_freesp() {