[RFC] rust: kernel: Add KUnit tests for ARCH_WARN_ASM bug table emission
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Sep 24 05:31:42 PDT 2026
On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 11:20:00AM +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) wrote:
> Verify that the __bug_table entry emitted by ARCH_WARN_ASM has a correct
> bug_addr displacement — i.e. the arch's trap label reference resolves to
> the trap instruction — by calling find_bug() with the exact virtual address
> of the trap, mirroring what the real trap handler does.
>
> To support all architectures, each arch that implements ARCH_WARN_ASM now
> defines ARCH_WARN_ASM_TRAP_LABEL, a string constant naming the local label
> at which the trap instruction is placed:
>
> x86 "1" (ud2 at label 1:)
> powerpc "1" (twi at label 1:)
> riscv "1" (ebreak at label 1:)
> arm64 "14471" (brk placed at 14471: by __BUG_ENTRY_END)
> s390 "0" (mc at label 0:)
I'm not a fan of exposing such a low-level implementation detail out of
the architecture code, and I don't think we should expose this.
What exactly are you trying to verify here, and why? Has there been
some _specific_ issue on powerpc that caused you to look at this?
Mark.
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