[PATCH v2 0/4] selftests: arm64: vec-syscfg updates

[Shuah Khan]

On 9/29/21 10:37 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:26:49AM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 9/29/21 9:35 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:43:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>>> I'm not sure it's a particularly good idea to run kselftest as a
>>>> non-root user TBH, it's going to cause you to skip a lot of tests.
> 
>> We don't want Kselftest default run to be as root. Users can choose to
>> run as root which would be an explicit choice so they expect and plan
>> for the impact. Example panic test.
> 
> OTOH if you're trying to verify that the tests aren't broken it's not
> that great since it'll mean that you'll not be exercising a bunch of the
> code.
> 

Correct. Running Kselftest as root is the best approach for full coverage.

thanks,
-- Shuah