[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add test of mitigation patching

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sun Jun 6 22:08:37 AEST 2021


On Fri, 7 May 2021 16:42:25 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> We recently discovered some of our mitigation patching was not safe
> against other CPUs running concurrently.
> 
> Add a test which enable/disables all mitigations in a tight loop while
> also running some stress load. On an unpatched system this almost always
> leads to an oops and panic/reboot, but we also check if the kernel
> becomes tainted in case we have a non-fatal oops.

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] selftests/powerpc: Add test of mitigation patching
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/34f7f79827ec4db30cff9001dfba19f496473e8d

cheers


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