selftests/mm: skip COW tmpfile cases when fallocate() is unsupported

Patch series "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test
conditions", v3.

Several MM selftests report failures when the test environment lacks
an underlying prerequisite, such as fallocate() support, MADV_REMOVE,
local page-cache semantics, or swap.

This series converts those unsupported cases to SKIP while preserving
failures for unexpected errors. It also allows migration tests to retry
transient move_pages() failures.


This patch (of 4):

The tmpfile-backed COW cases allocate a one-page file with fallocate()
before exercising private and shared mappings.  When the filesystem
backing tmpfile() does not implement fallocate(), setup fails with
EOPNOTSUPP and no COW behavior is exercised.

This occurs when the temporary directory resides on a filesystem with
limited allocation support, such as NFSv3.  Reporting a failure adds noise
because the test prerequisite is absent rather than the COW implementation
being broken.

Report EOPNOTSUPP as a skip.  Continue treating every other fallocate()
error as a failure so unexpected setup regressions remain visible.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727095225.372655-1-usama.anjum@arm.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260727095225.372655-2-usama.anjum@arm.com
Fixes: f8664f3c4a08 ("selftests/vm: cow: basic COW tests for non-anonymous pages")
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sarthak Sharma <sarthak.sharma@arm.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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