Re: [PATCH 0/4] selftests/vm/pkeys: Bug fixes and a new test

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Sun Jun 13 2021 - 05:10:10 EST


Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> There has been a lot of activity on the x86 front around the XSAVE
> architecture which is used to context-switch processor state (among
> other things). In addition, AMD has recently joined the protection
> keys club by adding processor support for PKU.
>
> The AMD implementation helped uncover a kernel bug around the PKRU
> "init state", which actually applied to Intel's implementation but
> was just harder to hit. This series adds a test which is expected
> to help find this class of bug both on AMD and Intel. All the work
> around pkeys on x86 also uncovered a few bugs in the selftest.
>
> Any testing of this new code (especially from my powerpc friends)
> would be appreciated.

I tested this on ppc64.

Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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