[LTP] [PATCH 1/2] syscalls/preadv01: Run test for all filesystems

[Xiao Yang]

On 2018/04/05 17:52, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> Looking at the test running it for all filesystems would not make much
> sense as it is since as far as I can tell:
>
> 1) setup() creates a file and writes data to it
>     - dirty pagecache record is created
>
> 2) test() reads data from the file
>     - kernel will copy the data from pagecache
>
> 3) test library cleanup will umount() the device
>     - dirty pagecache is written at this point
>
> So we will not reach any filesystem specific code at all.
>
> I guess that we may fix that by opening second file descriptor with
> O_DIRECT which would bypass pagecache so each read/write request would
> trigger I/O request from the block device.
Hi Cyril,

Sorry, i ignored the fact that they use pagecache.
Can we just keep them and add two new tests as you suggested?

Thanks,
Xiao Yang