[PATCH v2 0/4] userfaultfd: selftest: Improve behavior with older kernels

From: Thiago Jung Bauermann
Date: Fri Aug 03 2018 - 18:01:15 EST


Hello,

A tester ran the upstream selftest on a distro kernel and sounded the alarm when
it reported failures for features which aren't included in that kernel.

This patch set improves the test behavior in that scenario.

Changes since v1:

- Patch "userfaultfd: selftest: Skip test if userfaultfd() syscall
not supported"
- New patch, suggested by Mke Rapoport.

- Patch "userfaultfd: selftest: Skip test if a feature isn't supported"
- Try running other tests even if one (or more) of them returns KSFT_SKIP.

- Patch "userfaultfd: selftest: Cope if shmem doesn't support zeropage"
- Ignore lack of UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE in userfaultfd_events_test() and
userfaultfd_stress().
- Make userfaultfd_zeropage_test() return KSFT_SKIP if UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE
isn't supported.

Thiago Jung Bauermann (4):
userfaultfd: selftest: Fix checking of userfaultfd_open() result
userfaultfd: selftest: Skip test if userfaultfd() syscall not
supported
userfaultfd: selftest: Skip test if a feature isn't supported
userfaultfd: selftest: Cope if shmem doesn't support zeropage

tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)