History log of /linux-master/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-syscall.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 5379ef2a 03-Sep-2021 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

selftests/powerpc: Add scv versions of the basic TM syscall tests

The basic TM vs syscall test code hard codes an sc instruction for the
system call, which fails to cover scv even when the userspace libc has
support for it.

Duplicate the tests with hard coded scv variants so both are tested
when possible.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fix build on old toolchains by using .long for scv]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903125707.1601269-2-npiggin@gmail.com


# e42edf9b 28-Jul-2021 Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>

selftests: Skip TM tests on synthetic TM implementations

Transactional Memory was removed from the architecture in ISA v3.1. For
threads running in P8/P9 compatibility mode on P10 a synthetic TM
implementation is provided. In this implementation, tbegin. always sets
cr0 eq meaning the abort handler is always called. This is not an issue
as users of TM are expected to have a fallback non transactional way to
make forward progress in the abort handler. The TEXASR indicates if a
transaction failure is due to a synthetic implementation.

Some of the TM self tests need a non-degenerate TM implementation for
their testing to be meaningful so check for a synthetic implementation
and skip the test if so.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729041317.366612-2-jniethe5@gmail.com


# f50a7f3d 28-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 191

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

licensed under gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 99 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170027.163048684@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# a431b946 29-Jun-2016 Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>

selftests/powerpc: exec() with suspended transaction

Perform an exec() class syscall with a suspended transaction.

This is a test for the bug we fixed in 8e96a87c5431 ("powerpc/tm: Always
reclaim in start_thread() for exec() class syscalls").

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fix build errors, use a single binary for the test]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 34dc8b27 23-Nov-2015 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

selftests/powerpc: Move TM helpers into tm.h

Move have_htm_nosc() into a new tm.h, and add a new helper, have_htm()
which we'll use in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# ede8ef3f 23-Nov-2015 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

selftests/powerpc: Add have_hwcap2() helper

We already do this twice and want to add another so add a helper.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 20d09927 14-Oct-2015 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

selftests/powerpc: Allow the tm-syscall test to build with old headers

When building against older kernel headers, currently the tm-syscall
test fails to build because PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined.

Tweak the test so that if PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is not defined it still
builds, but prints a warning at run time and marks the test as skipped.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# b4b56f9e 11-Jun-2015 Sam bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>

powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions

This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported. It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended. It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>


# 7fe924d9 09-Apr-2015 Sam bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>

selftests/powerpc: Add transactional syscall test

Check that a syscall made during an active transaction will fail with
the correct failure code and that one made during a suspended
transaction will succeed.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>