[PATCH V4 10/13] selftests, powerpc: Add test for DSCR inheritence across fork & exec

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon May 18 20:56:13 AEST 2015


This patch adds a test case to verify that the changed DSCR value
inside any process would be inherited to it's child across the fork
and exec system call.

Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh at osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile      |   2 +-
 .../powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c          | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
index 81239e2..4e84309 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PROGS := dscr_default_test dscr_explicit_test dscr_user_test	\
-	 dscr_inherit_test
+	 dscr_inherit_test dscr_inherit_exec_test
 
 CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -lpthread
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7283954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/dscr_inherit_exec_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+/*
+ * POWER Data Stream Control Register (DSCR) fork exec test
+ *
+ * This testcase modifies the DSCR using mtspr, forks & execs and
+ * verifies that the child is using the changed DSCR using mfspr.
+ *
+ * When using the privilege state SPR, the instructions such as
+ * mfspr or mtspr are priviledged and the kernel emulates them
+ * for us. Instructions using problem state SPR can be exuecuted
+ * directly without any emulation if the HW supports them. Else
+ * they also get emulated by the kernel.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Anton Blanchard <anton at au.ibm.com>, IBM
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>, IBM
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#include "dscr.h"
+
+static char prog[LEN_MAX];
+
+static void do_exec(unsigned long parent_dscr)
+{
+	unsigned long cur_dscr, cur_dscr_usr;
+
+	cur_dscr = get_dscr();
+	cur_dscr_usr = get_dscr_usr();
+
+	if (cur_dscr != parent_dscr) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Parent DSCR %ld was not inherited "
+				"over exec (kernel value)\n", parent_dscr);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	if (cur_dscr_usr != parent_dscr) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Parent DSCR %ld was not inherited "
+				"over exec (user value)\n", parent_dscr);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	exit(0);
+}
+
+int dscr_inherit_exec(void)
+{
+	unsigned long i, dscr = 0;
+	pid_t pid;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < COUNT; i++) {
+		dscr++;
+		if (dscr > DSCR_MAX)
+			dscr = 0;
+
+		if (dscr == get_default_dscr())
+			continue;
+
+		if (i % 2 == 0)
+			set_dscr_usr(dscr);
+		else
+			set_dscr(dscr);
+
+		/*
+		 * XXX: Force a context switch out so that DSCR
+		 * current value is copied into the thread struct
+		 * which is required for the child to inherit the
+		 * changed value.
+		 */
+		sleep(1);
+
+		pid = fork();
+		if (pid == -1) {
+			perror("fork() failed");
+			exit(1);
+		} else if (pid) {
+			int status;
+
+			if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) == -1) {
+				perror("waitpid() failed");
+				exit(1);
+			}
+
+			if (!WIFEXITED(status)) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "Child didn't exit cleanly\n");
+				exit(1);
+			}
+
+			if (WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0) {
+				fprintf(stderr, "Child didn't exit cleanly\n");
+				return 1;
+			}
+		} else {
+			char dscr_str[16];
+
+			sprintf(dscr_str, "%ld", dscr);
+			execlp(prog, prog, "exec", dscr_str, NULL);
+			exit(1);
+		}
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	if (argc == 3 && !strcmp(argv[1], "exec")) {
+		unsigned long parent_dscr;
+
+		parent_dscr = atoi(argv[2]);
+		do_exec(parent_dscr);
+	} else if (argc != 1) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s\n", argv[0]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	strncpy(prog, argv[0], strlen(argv[0]));
+	return test_harness(dscr_inherit_exec, "dscr_inherit_exec_test");
+}
-- 
1.9.3



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