[LTP] [PATCH v2] readahead02: Fall back to the parent disk's BDI for partitions
Victor Cheng-Yen Yang
cyyang772@andestech.com
Wed Aug 26 04:03:37 CEST 2026
Partitions (e.g. mmcblk0p3) do not have their own BDI sysfs entry;
the BDI belongs to the parent disk.
In sysfs a partition is a subdirectory of its disk, so retry one
level up. That resolves for every partition naming scheme without
parsing the device name.
Without this fix, setup_readahead_length() silently returns the
default readahead_length, causing lots of readahead() calls per
test case and a multi-hour runtime on MMC-backed FPGA boards.
Also use tst_sys_conf_save() instead of manually save/restore
orig_bdi_limit. It only worked when orig_bdi_limit was non-zero.
A parent BDI starting at 0 would be left at the raised limit after
the test, along with every sibling partition sharing that BDI.
Signed-off-by: Victor Cheng-Yen Yang <cyyang772@andestech.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use tst_sys_conf_save to handle orig_bdi_limit save and restore.
- Amend the commit message.
.../kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c | 21 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c
index b65213ad0..4f201d65d 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/readahead/readahead02.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ static unsigned long cached_max;
static int ovl_mounted;
static int readahead_length = 4096;
static char sys_bdi_ra_path[PATH_MAX];
-static int orig_bdi_limit;
static const char mntpoint[] = OVL_BASE_MNTPOINT;
@@ -388,6 +387,11 @@ static void setup_readahead_length(void)
struct stat sbuf;
char tmp[PATH_MAX], *backing_dev;
int ra_new_limit, ra_limit;
+ struct tst_path_val bdi_ra = {
+ .path = sys_bdi_ra_path,
+ .val = NULL,
+ .flags = TST_SR_TBROK
+ };
/* Find out backing device name */
SAFE_LSTAT(tst_device->dev, &sbuf);
@@ -399,10 +403,16 @@ static void setup_readahead_length(void)
backing_dev = basename(tmp);
sprintf(sys_bdi_ra_path, "/sys/class/block/%s/bdi/read_ahead_kb",
backing_dev);
- if (access(sys_bdi_ra_path, F_OK))
- return;
- SAFE_FILE_SCANF(sys_bdi_ra_path, "%d", &orig_bdi_limit);
+ if (access(sys_bdi_ra_path, F_OK)) {
+ /* Partitions use the parent disk's BDI sysfs entry */
+ snprintf(sys_bdi_ra_path, sizeof(sys_bdi_ra_path),
+ "/sys/class/block/%s/../bdi/read_ahead_kb", backing_dev);
+ if (access(sys_bdi_ra_path, F_OK))
+ return;
+ }
+
+ tst_sys_conf_save(&bdi_ra);
/* raise bdi limit as much as kernel allows */
ra_new_limit = testfile_size / 1024;
@@ -446,9 +456,6 @@ static void cleanup(void)
{
if (ovl_mounted)
SAFE_UMOUNT(OVL_MNT);
-
- if (orig_bdi_limit)
- SAFE_FILE_PRINTF(sys_bdi_ra_path, "%d", orig_bdi_limit);
}
static struct tst_test test = {
--
2.34.1
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