3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Ellerman
872d11bca9 selftests/powerpc: Skip vmx/vsx/tar/etc tests on older CPUs
Some of our tests use VSX or newer VMX instructions, so need to be
skipped on older CPUs to avoid SIGILL'ing.

Similarly TAR was added in v2.07, and the PMU event used in the stcx
fail test only works on Power8 or later.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803020719.96114-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-08-03 22:12:41 +10:00
Thomas Gleixner
2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Anshuman Khandual
0da535c084 selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace tests for VSX, VMX registers
This patch adds ptrace interface test for VSX, VMX registers.
This also adds ptrace interface based helper functions related
to VSX, VMX registers access. This also adds some assembly
helper functions related to VSX and VMX registers.

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>
2016-11-17 17:11:51 +11:00