+ selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported.patch added to mm-new branch

+ selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: skip COW tmpfile cases when fallocate() is unsupported
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: skip COW tmpfile cases when fallocate() is unsupported
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:52:17 +0100

Patch series "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test
conditions", v3.

Several MM selftests report failures when the test environment lacks
an underlying prerequisite, such as fallocate() support, MADV_REMOVE,
local page-cache semantics, or swap.

This series converts those unsupported cases to SKIP while preserving
failures for unexpected errors. It also allows migration tests to retry
transient move_pages() failures.


This patch (of 5):

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.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727095225.372655-1-usama.anjum@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727095225.372655-2-usama.anjum@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c~selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c
@@ -1718,8 +1718,13 @@ static void run_with_tmpfile(non_anon_te
 
 	/* 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;
 	}
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from usama.anjum@arm.com are

selftests-mm-unpoison-pages-in-memory-failure-teardown.patch
selftests-mm-skip-cow-tmpfile-cases-when-fallocate-is-unsupported.patch
selftests-mm-skip-guard-hole-punch-test-if-madv_remove-is-unsupported.patch
selftests-mm-skip-khugepaged-swap-tests-without-swap.patch
selftests-mm-skip-hard-dirty-page-cache-test-on-nfs.patch
selftests-mm-retry-migration-failures-for-the-full-runtime.patch