[PATCH v11 32/40] kselftest/arm64: Add tests for TPIDR2

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 03:21:01PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> The Scalable Matrix Extension adds a new system register TPIDR2 intended to
> be used by libc for its own thread specific use, add some kselftests which
> exercise the ABI for it.
> 
> Since this test should with some adjustment work for TPIDR and any other
> similar registers added in future add tests for it in a separate
> directory rather than placing it with the other floating point tests,
> nothing existing looked suitable so I created a new test directory
> called "abi".
> 
> Since this feature is intended to be used by libc the test is built as
> freestanding code using nolibc so we don't end up with the test program
> and libc both trying to manage the register simultaneously and
> distrupting each other. As a result of being written using nolibc rather
> than using hwcaps to identify if SME is available in the system we check
> for the default SME vector length configuration in proc, adding hwcap
> support to nolibc seems like disproportionate effort and didn't feel
> entirely idiomatic for what nolibc is trying to do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>