As cachestat is a new syscall, it won't be available on older kernels, for instance those running on a build machine. In this case, a run reports all tests as "not ok" at the moment. Test for the cachestat syscall availability first, before doing further tests, and bail out early with a TAP SKIP comment. This also uses the opportunity to add the proper TAP headers, and add one check for the syscall error handling (illegal file descriptor). Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> --- .../selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c index a5a4ac8dcb76c..77620e7ecf562 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ #include "../kselftest.h" +#define NR_TESTS 8 + static const char * const dev_files[] = { "/dev/zero", "/dev/null", "/dev/urandom", "/proc/version", "/proc" @@ -235,7 +237,25 @@ bool test_cachestat_shmem(void) int main(void) { - int ret = 0; + int ret; + + ksft_print_header(); + + ret = syscall(__NR_cachestat, -1, NULL, NULL, 0); + if (ret == -1 && errno == ENOSYS) { + printf("1..0 # Skipped: cachestat syscall not available\n"); + return KSFT_SKIP; + } + + ksft_set_plan(NR_TESTS); + + if (ret == -1 && errno == EBADF) { + ksft_test_result_pass("bad file descriptor recognized\n"); + ret = 0; + } else { + ksft_test_result_fail("bad file descriptor ignored\n"); + ret = 1; + } for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { const char *dev_filename = dev_files[i]; -- 2.25.1