The new PowerPC VMX fast path (__copy_tofrom_user_power7_vmx) is not
exercised by existing copyloops selftests. This patch updates
the selftest to exercise the VMX variant, ensuring the VMX copy path
is validated.
Changes include:
- COPY_LOOP=test___copy_tofrom_user_power7_vmx with -D VMX_TEST is used
in existing selftest build targets.
- Inclusion of ../utils.c to provide get_auxv_entry() for hardware
feature detection.
- At runtime, the test skips execution if Altivec is not available.
- Copy sizes above VMX_COPY_THRESHOLD are used to ensure the VMX
path is taken.
This enables validation of the VMX fast path without affecting systems
that do not support Altivec.
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304122201.153049-2-sayalip@linux.ibm.com
This adds a set of test cases to test the behaviour of
copy_tofrom_user when exceptions are encountered accessing the
source or destination. Currently, copy_tofrom_user does not always
copy as many bytes as possible when an exception occurs on a store
to the destination, and that is reflected in failures in these tests.
Based on a test program from Anton Blanchard.
[paulus@ozlabs.org - test all three paths, wrote commit description,
made EX_TABLE create an exception table.]
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
