kselftest/arm64: Add a test program to exercise the syscall ABI
authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:41:02 +0000 (18:41 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:35:10 +0000 (18:35 +0000)
commitb77e995e3b9638e759d482e93deba1fa0760cb26
treec38599762bc0737c4039ada1f3ab53da5e3286ef
parent9331a604858a0f399ef8f886a88dd94927f136aa
kselftest/arm64: Add a test program to exercise the syscall ABI

Currently we don't have any coverage of the syscall ABI so let's add a very
dumb test program which sets up register patterns, does a sysscall and then
checks that the register state after the syscall matches what we expect.
The program is written in an extremely simplistic fashion with the goal of
making it easy to verify that it's doing what it thinks it's doing, it is
not a model of how one should write actual code.

Currently we validate the general purpose, FPSIMD and SVE registers. There
are other thing things that could be covered like FPCR and flags registers,
these can be covered incrementally - my main focus at the minute is
covering the ABI for the SVE registers.

The program repeats the tests for all possible SVE vector lengths in case
some vector length specific optimisation causes issues, as well as testing
FPSIMD only. It tries two syscalls, getpid() and sched_yield(), in an
effort to cover both immediate return to userspace and scheduling another
task though there are no guarantees which cases will be hit.

A new test directory "abi" is added to hold the test, it doesn't seem to
fit well into any of the existing directories.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211210184133.320748-7-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/.gitignore [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/syscall-abi-asm.S [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/syscall-abi.c [new file with mode: 0644]