[PATCH V3 0/2] selftests/powerpc: Updates to EBB selftest for ISA v3.1

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 25 23:51:41 AEST 2021


The "no_handler_test" in ebb selftests attempts to read the PMU
registers after closing of the event via helper function
"dump_ebb_state". With the MMCR0 control bit (PMCCEXT) in ISA v3.1,
read access to group B registers is restricted when MMCR0 PMCC=0b00.
Hence the call to dump_ebb_state after closing of event will generate
a SIGILL, which is expected.

Test has below in logs:
<<>>
!! child died by signal 4
failure: no_handler_test
<<>>

In other platforms (like power9), the older behaviour works where
group B PMU SPRs are readable. The "dump_ebb_state" is called twice
in the test. The second call after closing of event was done inorder
to dump state of registers when the counters are frozen. But since
the counters should already be frozen by the time first dump is done,
patch1 drops the second call to "dump_ebb_state".

To address the new sigill behaviour in ISA v3.1, patch2 creates
a separate selftest.

Changelog:
v2 -> v3:
	Fixed a space issue in patch2.

v1 -> v2:
        Addressed review comments from Michael Ellerman.
        First version attempted to address the SIGILL
        behaviour in existing "no_handler_test" test itself.
        As per mpe's suggestion, moved that to a separate test
        and removed the second call to "dump_ebb_state" since
        that is actually not needed.

Athira Rajeev (2):
  selftests/powerpc: Fix "no_handler" EBB selftest
  selftests/powerpc: EBB selftest for MMCR0 control for PMU SPRs in ISA
    v3.1

 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile   |  2 +-
 .../selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/no_handler_test.c    |  2 -
 .../powerpc/pmu/ebb/regs_access_pmccext_test.c     | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/regs_access_pmccext_test.c

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