linux-kselftest.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
To: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	amit.kachhap@arm.com, andreyknvl@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] Add arm64/signal initial kselftest support
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 12:47:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190904114722.GQ27757@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902112932.36129-1-cristian.marussi@arm.com>

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 12:29:21pm +0100, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> this patchset aims to add the initial arch-specific arm64 support to
> kselftest starting with signals-related test-cases.
> A common internal test-case layout is proposed which then it is anyway
> wired-up to the toplevel kselftest Makefile, so that it should be possible
> at the end to run it on an arm64 target in the usual way with KSFT.

BTW, it's helpful to state the base branch / commit as clearly as
possible near the top of the cover letter, say,

--8<--

This series is based on arm64/for-next/core [1]
commit 9ce1263033cd ("selftests, arm64: add a selftest for passing tagged pointers to kernel")

[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-next/core

-->8--

This is particularly important if you expect the maintainer to pick up
the patches.

You don't need to reference a specific commit unless there's a
significant chance of conflicts if the wrong commit is used, but it can
help provide a clue as to why you're basing on this alternate branch.

> ~/linux# make TARGETS=arm64 kselftest
> 
> New KSFT arm64 testcases live inside tools/testing/selftests/arm64 grouped by
> family inside subdirectories: arm64/signal is the first family proposed with
> this series.
> This series converts also to this subdirectory scheme the pre-existing
> (already queued on arm64/for-next/core) KSFT arm64 tags tests, moving them
> into arm64/tags.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Cristian
> 
> 
> Notes:
> -----
> - further details in the included READMEs
> 
> - more tests still to be written (current strategy is going through the related
>   Kernel signal-handling code and write a test for each possible and sensible code-path)
>   A few ideas for more TODO testcases:
> 	- fake_sigreturn_unmapped_sp: SP into unmapped addrs
> 	- fake_sigreturn_kernelspace_sp: SP into kernel addrs
> 	- fake_sigreturn_sve_bad_extra_context: SVE extra context badly formed
> 	- mangle_sve_invalid_extra_context: SVE extra_context invalid
> 
> - SVE signal testcases and special handling will be part of an additional patch
>   still to be released

What's your approach to checking that the test failure paths work?

We could either hack the kernel or the tests to provoke "fake" failures,
and I don't think it's necessary to test everything in this way,
providing we have confidence that the test strategy and framework works
in general.

[...]

Cheers
---Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-04 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-02 11:29 [PATCH v5 00/11] Add arm64/signal initial kselftest support Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] kselftest: arm64: add skeleton Makefile Cristian Marussi
2019-09-03  9:26   ` Amit Kachhap
2019-09-03  9:45     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-05 17:57     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-09 12:42       ` Amit Kachhap
2019-09-16 11:41         ` Dave Martin
2019-09-04 11:47   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-05 13:45     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-05 14:18       ` Dave Martin
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] kselftest: arm64: add common utils and one testcase Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:47   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-06 10:26     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-16 11:40       ` Dave Martin
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] kselftest: arm64: mangle_pstate_invalid_daif_bits Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:48   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] kselftest: arm64: mangle_pstate_invalid_mode_el[123][ht] Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:48   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] kselftest: arm64: mangle_pstate_ssbs_regs Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:48   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 15:51     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_bad_magic Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:48   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 17:31     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_bad_size_for_magic0 Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:49   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 17:47     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_missing_fpsimd Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:49   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 17:51     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_duplicated_fpsimd Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:49   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-05 12:15     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-05 12:39       ` Dave Martin
2019-09-05 13:32         ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-05 14:20           ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 18:03     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_bad_size Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:49   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 18:11     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-02 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 11/11] kselftest: arm64: fake_sigreturn_misaligned_sp Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:49   ` Dave Martin
2019-09-09 18:32     ` Cristian Marussi
2019-09-04 11:47 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2019-09-10 12:25   ` [PATCH v5 00/11] Add arm64/signal initial kselftest support Cristian Marussi
2019-09-16 12:14     ` Dave Martin

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20190904114722.GQ27757@arm.com \
    --to=dave.martin@arm.com \
    --cc=amit.kachhap@arm.com \
    --cc=andreyknvl@google.com \
    --cc=cristian.marussi@arm.com \
    --cc=linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org \
    --cc=linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=shuah@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).