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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright IBM Corp. 2020
+ *
+ * This test attempts to cause a FP denormal exception on POWER8 CPUs. Unfortunately
+ * if the denormal handler is not configured or working properly, this can cause a bad
+ * crash in kernel mode when the kernel tries to save FP registers when the process
+ * exits.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+static int test_denormal_fpu(void)
+{
+	unsigned int m32;
+	unsigned long m64;
+	volatile float f;
+	volatile double d;
+
+	/* try to induce lfs <denormal> ; stfd */
+
+	m32 = 0x00715fcf; /* random denormal */
+	memcpy((float *)&f, &m32, sizeof(f));
+	d = f;
+	memcpy(&m64, (double *)&d, sizeof(d));
+
+	FAIL_IF((long)(m64 != 0x380c57f3c0000000)); /* renormalised value */
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	return test_harness(test_denormal_fpu, "fpu_denormal");
+}