On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 04:21:48PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:16 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote: > > > This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to > > > pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other > > > than 0x00) as syscall arguments. > > > > > > This patch adds a simple test, that calls the uname syscall with a > > > tagged user pointer as an argument. Without the kernel accepting tagged > > > user pointers the test fails with EFAULT. > > > > That's probably sufficient for a simple example. Something we could add > > to Documentation maybe is a small library that can be LD_PRELOAD'ed so > > that you can run a lot more tests like LTP. > > Should I add this into this series, or should this go into Vincenzo's patchset? If you can tweak the selftest Makefile to build a library and force it with LD_PRELOAD, you can keep it with this patch. It would be easier to extend to other syscall tests, signal handling etc. -- Catalin
