[PATCH] kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Jul 15 19:34:54 PDT 2025



On 16/07/25 2:41 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Some build environments for the selftests are not picking up the newly
> added AT_HWCAP3 when using the libc headers, even with headers_install
> (which we require already for the arm64 selftests).  As a quick fix add
> local definitions of the constant to tools use it, while auxvec.h is
> installed with some toolchains it needs some persuasion to get picked up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c       | 4 ++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_prctl.c | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c
> index 35f521e5f41c..aa902408facd 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/abi/hwcap.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
>  
>  #define TESTS_PER_HWCAP 3
>  
> +#ifndef AT_HWCAP3
> +#define AT_HWCAP3 29

Just wondering - would it be better to add a comment that this is a
temporary construct till libc headers pick up AT_HWCAP3 definitions.


> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * Function expected to generate exception when the feature is not
>   * supported and return when it is supported. If the specific exception
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_prctl.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_prctl.c
> index 4c89e9538ca0..c36c4c49ff95 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_prctl.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/check_prctl.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
>  
>  #include "kselftest.h"
>  
> +#ifndef AT_HWCAP3
> +#define AT_HWCAP3 29
> +#endif
> +
>  static int set_tagged_addr_ctrl(int val)
>  {
>  	int ret;
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 86731a2a651e58953fc949573895f2fa6d456841
> change-id: 20250710-arm64-selftest-bodge-hwcap3-b6ab30ab69cd
> 
> Best regards,
> --  
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> 
> 




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