[PATCH v2 5.15.y] kselftest/arm64: signal: Skip SVE signal test if not enough VLs supported

Yijia Wang wangyijia.yeah at bytedance.com
Fri Jun 26 20:22:59 PDT 2026


[ Upstream commit 78c09c0f4df89fabdcfb3e5e53d3196cf67f64ef ]

On platform where SVE is supported but there are less than 2 VLs available
the signal SVE change test should be skipped instead of failing.

Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524103149.2802-1-cristian.marussi@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yijia Wang <wangyijia.yeah at bytedance.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Keep the commit message aligned with the upstream commit, as requested by
  Sasha.
- Link to v1:
  https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260626-b4-arm64-515-preview-clean-v1-1-ad19e286e322@bytedance.com

 .../arm64/signal/testcases/fake_sigreturn_sve_change_vl.c       | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/fake_sigreturn_sve_change_vl.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/fake_sigreturn_sve_change_vl.c
index bb50b5adb..915821375 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/fake_sigreturn_sve_change_vl.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/signal/testcases/fake_sigreturn_sve_change_vl.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  * supported and is expected to segfault.
  */
 
+#include <kselftest.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <ucontext.h>
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ static bool sve_get_vls(struct tdescr *td)
 	/* We need at least two VLs */
 	if (nvls < 2) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Only %d VL supported\n", nvls);
+		td->result = KSFT_SKIP;
 		return false;
 	}
 
-- 
2.43.0



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