diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 1b48ddff4159..072159a79e57 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4490,6 +4490,13 @@ S:	Supported
 F:	Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.rst
 F:	fs/cachefiles/
 
+CACHESTAT: PAGE CACHE STATS FOR A FILE
+M:	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
+M:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
+L:	linux-mm@kvack.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
+
 CADENCE MIPI-CSI2 BRIDGES
 M:	Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
 L:	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
index 13a6837a0c6b..93dbf0f0e814 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ TARGETS += amd-pstate
 TARGETS += arm64
 TARGETS += bpf
 TARGETS += breakpoints
+TARGETS += cachestat
 TARGETS += capabilities
 TARGETS += cgroup
 TARGETS += clone3
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d6c30b43a4bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+test_cachestat
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fca73aaa7d14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+TEST_GEN_PROGS := test_cachestat
+
+CFLAGS += $(KHDR_INCLUDES)
+CFLAGS += -Wall
+CFLAGS += -lrt
+
+include ../lib.mk
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f62ffb30f8ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cachestat/test_cachestat.c
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/shm.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include "../kselftest.h"
+
+static const char * const dev_files[] = {
+	"/dev/zero", "/dev/null", "/dev/urandom",
+	"/proc/version", "/proc"
+};
+static const int cachestat_nr = 451;
+
+void print_cachestat(struct cachestat *cs)
+{
+	ksft_print_msg(
+	"Using cachestat: Cached: %lu, Dirty: %lu, Writeback: %lu, Evicted: %lu, Recently Evicted: %lu\n",
+	cs->nr_cache, cs->nr_dirty, cs->nr_writeback,
+	cs->nr_evicted, cs->nr_recently_evicted);
+}
+
+bool write_exactly(int fd, size_t filesize)
+{
+	char data[filesize];
+	bool ret = true;
+	int random_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+
+	if (random_fd < 0) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Unable to access urandom.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto out;
+	} else {
+		int remained = filesize;
+		char *cursor = data;
+
+		while (remained) {
+			ssize_t read_len = read(random_fd, cursor, remained);
+
+			if (read_len <= 0) {
+				ksft_print_msg("Unable to read from urandom.\n");
+				ret = false;
+				goto close_random_fd;
+			}
+
+			remained -= read_len;
+			cursor += read_len;
+		}
+
+		/* write random data to fd */
+		remained = filesize;
+		cursor = data;
+		while (remained) {
+			ssize_t write_len = write(fd, cursor, remained);
+
+			if (write_len <= 0) {
+				ksft_print_msg("Unable write random data to file.\n");
+				ret = false;
+				goto close_random_fd;
+			}
+
+			remained -= write_len;
+			cursor += write_len;
+		}
+	}
+
+close_random_fd:
+	close(random_fd);
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Open/create the file at filename, (optionally) write random data to it
+ * (exactly num_pages), then test the cachestat syscall on this file.
+ *
+ * If test_fsync == true, fsync the file, then check the number of dirty
+ * pages.
+ */
+bool test_cachestat(const char *filename, bool write_random, bool create,
+		bool test_fsync, unsigned long num_pages, int open_flags,
+		mode_t open_mode)
+{
+	size_t PS = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+	int filesize = num_pages * PS;
+	bool ret = true;
+	long syscall_ret;
+	struct cachestat cs;
+
+	int fd = open(filename, open_flags, open_mode);
+
+	if (fd == -1) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Unable to create/open file.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto out;
+	} else {
+		ksft_print_msg("Create/open %s\n", filename);
+	}
+
+	if (write_random) {
+		if (!write_exactly(fd, filesize)) {
+			ksft_print_msg("Unable to access urandom.\n");
+			ret = false;
+			goto out1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, filesize, 0, &cs, 0);
+
+	ksft_print_msg("Cachestat call returned %ld\n", syscall_ret);
+
+	if (syscall_ret) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Cachestat returned non-zero.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto out1;
+
+	} else {
+		print_cachestat(&cs);
+
+		if (write_random) {
+			if (cs.nr_cache + cs.nr_evicted != num_pages) {
+				ksft_print_msg(
+					"Total number of cached and evicted pages is off.\n");
+				ret = false;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (test_fsync) {
+		if (fsync(fd)) {
+			ksft_print_msg("fsync fails.\n");
+			ret = false;
+		} else {
+			syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, filesize, 0, &cs, 0);
+
+			ksft_print_msg("Cachestat call (after fsync) returned %ld\n",
+				syscall_ret);
+
+			if (!syscall_ret) {
+				print_cachestat(&cs);
+
+				if (cs.nr_dirty) {
+					ret = false;
+					ksft_print_msg(
+						"Number of dirty should be zero after fsync.\n");
+				}
+			} else {
+				ksft_print_msg("Cachestat (after fsync) returned non-zero.\n");
+				ret = false;
+				goto out1;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+out1:
+	close(fd);
+
+	if (create)
+		remove(filename);
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+bool test_cachestat_shmem(void)
+{
+	size_t PS = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+	size_t filesize = PS * 512 * 2; /* 2 2MB huge pages */
+	int syscall_ret;
+	off_t off = PS;
+	size_t compute_len = PS * 512;
+	char *filename = "tmpshmcstat";
+	struct cachestat cs;
+	bool ret = true;
+	unsigned long num_pages = compute_len / PS;
+	int fd = shm_open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600);
+
+	if (fd < 0) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Unable to create shmem file.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (ftruncate(fd, filesize)) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Unable to trucate shmem file.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto close_fd;
+	}
+
+	if (!write_exactly(fd, filesize)) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Unable to write to shmem file.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto close_fd;
+	}
+
+	syscall_ret = syscall(cachestat_nr, fd, compute_len, off, &cs, 0);
+
+	if (syscall_ret) {
+		ksft_print_msg("Cachestat returned non-zero.\n");
+		ret = false;
+		goto close_fd;
+	} else {
+		print_cachestat(&cs);
+		if (cs.nr_cache + cs.nr_evicted != num_pages) {
+			ksft_print_msg(
+				"Total number of cached and evicted pages is off.\n");
+			ret = false;
+		}
+	}
+
+close_fd:
+	shm_unlink(filename);
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+		const char *dev_filename = dev_files[i];
+
+		if (test_cachestat(dev_filename, false, false, false,
+			4, O_RDONLY, 0400))
+			ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with %s\n", dev_filename);
+		else {
+			ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with %s\n", dev_filename);
+			ret = 1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (test_cachestat("tmpfilecachestat", true, true,
+		true, 4, O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0400 | 0600))
+		ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with a normal file\n");
+	else {
+		ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with normal file\n");
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+
+	if (test_cachestat_shmem())
+		ksft_test_result_pass("cachestat works with a shmem file\n");
+	else {
+		ksft_test_result_fail("cachestat fails with a shmem file\n");
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
