Re: Should we consider disable generic/563 for file systems that do not support cgroup2?

"Theodore Tso" <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:02:47 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.fstests,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 12:19:52AM -0500, Zorro Lang wrote:
> 
> 3. You can use or implement a _require_ function to check if a specific feature
>    is supported, which will gracefully _notrun the test if it's missing. While
>    _require_cgroup2() already exists, its granularity is currently too coarse to
>    _notrun for HFS. You might want to consider refining it or introducing a new
>    helper to help file systems like HFS+ _notrun properly.

It may be rather challenging to determine whether the file system is
supposed to support cgroupv2, unless we want to define a VFS specific
flag and a way to query it via sysfs.  If we want to encourage the use
of the simpler file systems to use xfstests, we may want to consider
that approach.

						- Ted