Re: [PATCH v2] mm: alloc_pages_bulk: remove assumption of populating only NULL elements

[Yunsheng Lin]

On 3/8/2025 2:43 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:

...

> > I tested XFS using the below cmd and testcase, testing seems
> > to be working fine, or am I missing something obvious here
> > as I am not realy familiar with fs subsystem yet:
>
> That's hardly what I'd call a test. It barely touches the filesystem
> at all, and it is not exercising memory allocation failure paths at
> all.
>
> Go look up fstests and use that to test the filesystem changes you
> are making. You can use that to test btrfs and NFS, too.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I used the below xfstests to do the testing in a VM, the smoke testing
seems fine for now, will do a full testing too:
https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld

Also, it seems the fstests doesn't support erofs yet?

> -Dave.