[PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Limit the maximum VL we try to set via ptrace

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jan 31 08:28:25 PST 2023


On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:02:41 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> When SVE was initially merged we chose to export the maximum VQ in the ABI
> as being 512, rather more than the architecturally supported maximum of 16.
> For the ptrace tests this results in us generating a lot of test cases and
> hence log output which are redundant since a system couldn't possibly
> support them. Instead only check values up to the current architectural
> limit, plus one more so that we're covering the constraining of higher
> vector lengths.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/kselftest), thanks!

[1/1] kselftest/arm64: Limit the maximum VL we try to set via ptrace
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/89ff30b9b720

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Catalin




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