[PATCH v2 1/4] kselftest/arm64: Always encourage preemption for za-test

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Aug 29 08:44:49 PDT 2022


Since we now have an explicit test for the syscall ABI there is no need for
za-test to cover getpid() so just unconditionally do sched_yield() like we
do in fpsimd-test.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
index 9ab6f9cd9623..2dd358f9edf2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
@@ -287,12 +287,7 @@ _start:
 	subs	x21, x21, #1
 	b.ne	0b
 
-	and	x8, x22, #127		// Every 128 interations...
-	cbz	x8, 0f
-	mov	x8, #__NR_getpid	// (otherwise minimal syscall)
-	b	1f
-0:
-	mov	x8, #__NR_sched_yield	// ...encourage preemption
+	mov	x8, #__NR_sched_yield	// encourage preemption
 1:
 	svc	#0
 
-- 
2.30.2




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