bpo-35772: Fix test_tarfile on ppc64 (GH-11606)

Fix sparse file tests of test_tarfile on ppc64le with the tmpfs
filesystem.

Fix the function testing if the filesystem supports sparse files:
create a file which contains data and "holes", instead of creating a
file which contains no data.

tmpfs effective block size is a page size (tmpfs lives in the page
cache). RHEL uses 64 KiB pages on aarch64, ppc64 and ppc64le, only
s390x and x86_64 use 4 KiB pages, whereas the test punch holes of
4 KiB.

test.pythoninfo: Add resource.getpagesize().

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index 7d2eec8..5e4d75e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -973,16 +973,21 @@ class GNUReadTest(LongnameTest, ReadTest, unittest.TestCase):
     def _fs_supports_holes():
         # Return True if the platform knows the st_blocks stat attribute and
         # uses st_blocks units of 512 bytes, and if the filesystem is able to
-        # store holes in files.
+        # store holes of 4 KiB in files.
+        #
+        # The function returns False if page size is larger than 4 KiB.
+        # For example, ppc64 uses pages of 64 KiB.
         if sys.platform.startswith("linux"):
             # Linux evidentially has 512 byte st_blocks units.
             name = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "sparse-test")
             with open(name, "wb") as fobj:
+                # Seek to "punch a hole" of 4 KiB
                 fobj.seek(4096)
+                fobj.write(b'x' * 4096)
                 fobj.truncate()
             s = os.stat(name)
             support.unlink(name)
-            return s.st_blocks == 0
+            return (s.st_blocks * 512 < s.st_size)
         else:
             return False