selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking
authorWeihong Zhang <weihong.zhang@intel.com>
Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:26:10 +0000 (14:26 +0300)
committerDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:08:40 +0000 (13:08 -0700)
commit833c12ce0f4307675beb60b194833c6c7cb506d7
tree5f3de37c556c9af65e1d40291225e90df9694d27
parent72fd6d738c991225c1053ee5003dd45e9c04e0e6
selftests/x86/lam: Add inherit test cases for linear-address masking

LAM is enabled per-thread and gets inherited on fork(2)/clone(2). exec()
reverts LAM status to the default disabled state.

There are two test scenarios:

 - Fork test cases:

   These cases were used to test the inheritance of LAM for per-thread,
   Child process generated by fork() should inherit LAM feature from
   parent process, Child process can get the LAM mode same as parent
   process.

 - Execve test cases:

   Processes generated by execve() are different from processes
   generated by fork(), these processes revert LAM status to disabled
   status.

Signed-off-by: Weihong Zhang <weihong.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230312112612.31869-16-kirill.shutemov%40linux.intel.com
tools/testing/selftests/x86/lam.c