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Andre Przywara f84f62e699 selftests: cachestat: catch failing fsync test on tmpfs
The cachestat kselftest runs a test on a normal file, which is created
temporarily in the current directory.  Among the tests it runs there is a
call to fsync(), which is expected to clean all dirty pages used by the
file.

However the tmpfs filesystem implements fsync() as noop_fsync(), so the
call will not even attempt to clean anything when this test file happens
to live on a tmpfs instance.  This happens in an initramfs, or when the
current directory is in /dev/shm or sometimes /tmp.

To avoid this test failing wrongly, use statfs() to check which filesystem
the test file lives on.  If that is "tmpfs", we skip the fsync() test.

Since the fsync test is only one part of the "normal file" test, we now
execute this twice, skipping the fsync part on the first call.  This way
only the second test, including the fsync part, would be skipped.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230821160534.3414911-3-andre.przywara@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-24 14:59:47 -07:00
arch mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk 2023-08-21 13:07:20 -07:00
block block-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 11:05:15 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation TTY/Serial fixes for 6.5-rc4 2023-07-30 11:51:36 -07:00
drivers spi: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-30 12:54:31 -07:00
fs nilfs2: fix general protection fault in nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() 2023-08-21 13:07:21 -07:00
include mm: enable page walking API to lock vmas during the walk 2023-08-21 13:07:20 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.5 2023-07-01 09:24:31 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-28 2023-07-28 10:19:44 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel Probe fixes for 6.5-rc3: 2023-07-30 11:27:22 -07:00
lib maple_tree: disable mas_wr_append() when other readers are possible 2023-08-24 14:59:47 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm madvise:madvise_free_pte_range(): don't use mapcount() against large folio for sharing check 2023-08-24 14:59:46 -07:00
net A patch to reduce the potential for erroneous RBD exclusive lock 2023-07-28 10:47:24 -07:00
rust rust: error: impl Debug for Error with errname() integration 2023-06-13 01:24:42 +02:00
samples arm64: ftrace: Add direct call trampoline samples support 2023-07-10 17:51:54 -04:00
scripts x86: 2023-07-30 11:19:08 -07:00
security security: keys: perform capable check only on privileged operations 2023-07-28 18:07:41 +00:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-27 14:54:23 +02:00
tools selftests: cachestat: catch failing fsync test on tmpfs 2023-08-24 14:59:47 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Grab a reference to KVM for VM and vCPU stats file descriptors 2023-07-29 11:05:28 -04:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx" 2023-07-04 15:05:12 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: update remaining active codeaurora.org email addresses 2023-07-27 13:07:05 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add maple tree mailing list 2023-08-04 13:03:42 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.5-rc4 2023-07-30 13:23:47 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.