[PATCH v8 11/13] KVM: selftests: aarch64: vPMU register test for unimplemented counters

Oliver Upton oliver.upton at linux.dev
Tue Oct 24 11:29:23 PDT 2023


On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:

[...]

> +#define INVALID_EC	(-1ul)
> +uint64_t expected_ec = INVALID_EC;
> +uint64_t op_end_addr;
> +
>  static void guest_sync_handler(struct ex_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	uint64_t esr, ec;
>  
>  	esr = read_sysreg(esr_el1);
>  	ec = (esr >> ESR_EC_SHIFT) & ESR_EC_MASK;
> -	__GUEST_ASSERT(0, "PC: 0x%lx; ESR: 0x%lx; EC: 0x%lx", regs->pc, esr, ec);
> +
> +	__GUEST_ASSERT(op_end_addr && (expected_ec == ec),
> +			"PC: 0x%lx; ESR: 0x%lx; EC: 0x%lx; EC expected: 0x%lx",
> +			regs->pc, esr, ec, expected_ec);
> +
> +	/* Will go back to op_end_addr after the handler exits */
> +	regs->pc = op_end_addr;

This sort of game is exceedingly fragile, and actually causes the test
to fail when I build it with clang. The test body is written in C, so
you don't know if the label you've chosen as the return address is
actually the next instruction after the sysreg access.

A64 instructions are guaranteed to be 32 bit, so we can just increment
PC by 4 here.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver



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