On Mon, 2026-03-16 at 16:12 -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 05:58:32PM -0300, Marcos Paulo de Souza
> wrote:
> > Instead of checking if the architecture running the test was
> > powerpc,
> > check if CONF_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER is defined or not.
> > 
> > No functional changes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules/test_klp_syscall.c
> > | 7 +++----
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git
> > a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules/test_klp_syscall.c
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules/test_klp_syscall.c
> > index dd802783ea849..c01a586866304 100644
> > ---
> > a/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules/test_klp_syscall.c
> > +++
> > b/tools/testing/selftests/livepatch/test_modules/test_klp_syscall.c
> > @@ -12,15 +12,14 @@
> >  #include <linux/slab.h>
> >  #include <linux/livepatch.h>
> >  
> > -#if defined(__x86_64__)
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER)
> > +#define FN_PREFIX
> > +#elif defined(__x86_64__)
> >  #define FN_PREFIX __x64_
> >  #elif defined(__s390x__)
> >  #define FN_PREFIX __s390x_
> >  #elif defined(__aarch64__)
> >  #define FN_PREFIX __arm64_
> > -#else
> > -/* powerpc does not select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER */
> > -#define FN_PREFIX
> 
> The patch does maintain the previous behavior, but I'm wondering if
> the
> original assertion about ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER on Power was
> correct:
> 
>   $ grep ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER arch/powerpc/Kconfig
>           select ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER         if !SPU_BASE &&
> !COMPAT
>           depends on PPC64 && ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER
> 
> Perhaps I just forgot what that additional piece of information that
> explains the comment (highly probable these days), and if so, might
> be
> nice to add to this commit since I don't see it in 6a71770442b5
> ("selftests: livepatch: Test livepatching a heavily called syscall").

Sorry for the late reply...

Well, so far the test always run fine for us, so I never looked why ppc
didn't have ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER TBH... I can add some information
about it, sure.  

> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Joe

Reply via email to