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2018-11-25	selftests/powerpc: Allocate base registers	Breno Leitao	1	-2/+1
	Some ptrace selftests are passing input operands using a constraint that can allocate any register for the operand, and using these registers on load/store operations. If the register allocated by the compiler happens to be zero (r0), it might cause an invalid memory address access, since load and store operations consider the content of 0x0 address if the base register is r0, instead of the content of the r0 register. For example: r1 := 0xdeadbeef r0 := 0xdeadbeef ld r2, 0(1) /* will load into r2 the content of r1 address / ld r2, 0(0) / will load into r2 the content of 0x0 */ In order to avoid this possible problem, the inline assembly constraint should be aware that these registers will be used as a base register, thus, r0 should not be allocated. Other than that, this patch removes inline assembly operands that are not used by the tests. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-12-11	selftests/powerpc: Fix build errors in powerpc ptrace selftests	Simon Guo	1	-1/+1
	GCC 7 will take "r2" in clobber list as an error and it will get following build errors for powerpc ptrace selftests even with -fno-pic option: ptrace-tm-vsx.c: In function ‘tm_vsx’: ptrace-tm-vsx.c:42:2: error: PIC register clobbered by ‘r2’ in ‘asm’ asm __volatile__( ^~~ make[1]: * [ptrace-tm-vsx] Error 1 ptrace-tm-spd-vsx.c: In function ‘tm_spd_vsx’: ptrace-tm-spd-vsx.c:55:2: error: PIC register clobbered by ‘r2’ in ‘asm’ asm __volatile__( ^~~ make[1]: * [ptrace-tm-spd-vsx] Error 1 ptrace-tm-spr.c: In function ‘tm_spr’: ptrace-tm-spr.c:46:2: error: PIC register clobbered by ‘r2’ in ‘asm’ asm __volatile__( ^~~ Fix the build error by removing "r2" from the clobber list. None of these asm blocks actually clobber r2. Reported-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-11-17	selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers in TM	Anshuman Khandual	1	-0/+168
	This patch adds ptrace interface test for VSX, VMX registers inside TM context. This also adds ptrace interface based helper functions related to chckpointed VSX, VMX registers access. Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Guo <wei.guo.simon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>