Michael Ellerman b7683fc66e selftests/powerpc: Add a test of wild bctr
This tests that a bctr (Branch to counter and link), ie. a function
call, to a wildly out-of-bounds address is handled correctly.

Some old kernel versions didn't handle it correctly, see eg:

  "powerpc/slb: Force a full SLB flush when we insert for a bad EA"
  https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-April/157397.html

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-10-20 13:26:47 +11:00
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