selftests/powerpc: Add test to verify rfi flush across a system call
authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 21 May 2018 15:13:57 +0000 (20:43 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Sat, 20 Oct 2018 02:26:47 +0000 (13:26 +1100)
commitd2bf793237b3aa9c4275a466eef3893eef593691
tree50d5fce87bd72bc5eb8793a229020d636afd0b16
parentdb3848515aff369404c31ef5a63699799913518f
selftests/powerpc: Add test to verify rfi flush across a system call

This adds a test to verify proper functioning of the rfi flush
capability implemented to mitigate meltdown. The test works by
measuring the number of L1d cache misses encountered while loading
data from memory. Across a system call, since the L1d cache is flushed
when rfi_flush is enabled, the number of cache misses is expected to
be relative to the number of cachelines corresponding to the data
being loaded.

The current system setting is reflected via powerpc/rfi_flush under
debugfs (assumed to be /sys/kernel/debug/). This test verifies the
expected result with rfi_flush enabled as well as when it is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Add SPDX tags, clang format, skip if the debugfs is missing, use
 __u64 and SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES to avoid printf() build errors.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/include/utils.h
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/rfi_flush.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/utils.c