FAILED: patch "[PATCH] selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix incorrect write of zero to" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree
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maintainerThe patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 9ad665ef55eaad1ead1406a58a34f615a7c18b5e
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2024061331-trilogy-bulk-6fc0@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
9ad665ef55ea ("selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix incorrect write of zero to nr_hugepages")
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 9ad665ef55eaad1ead1406a58a34f615a7c18b5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 13:13:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix incorrect write of zero to
nr_hugepages
Currently, the test tries to set nr_hugepages to zero, but that is not actually done because the file offset is not reset after read(). Fix that using lseek().
tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c +2 -0
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned long hugepage_size) goto close_fd; } +lseek (fd,0 ,SEEK_SET ); +/* Start with the initial condition of 0 huge pages*/ if (write (fd,"0" ,sizeof (char )) !=sizeof (char )) { ksft_print_msg("Failed to write 0 to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: %s\n",