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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>
Linux kernel
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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.