[PATCH v2] selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Aug 5 10:42:26 AEST 2020


On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 12:07:19 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Some of our tests use VSX or newer VMX instructions, so need to be
> skipped on older CPUs to avoid SIGILL'ing.
> 
> Similarly TAR was added in v2.07, and the PMU event used in the stcx
> fail test only works on Power8 or later.

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/872d11bca9c29ed19595c993b9f552ffe9b63dcb

cheers


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