On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:19:41 +1100, Benjamin Gray wrote:
> Started this when writing tests for a feature I'm working on, needing a way to
> read/write numbers to system files. After writing some utils to safely handle
> file IO and parsing, I realised I'd made the ~6th file read/write
> implementation
> and only(?) number parser that checks all the failure modes when expecting to
> parse a single number from a file.
>
> So these utils ended up becoming this series. I also modified some other test
> utils I came across while doing so. My understanding is selftests are not
> expected
> to be backported, so I wasn't concerned about only introducing new utils and
> leaving
> the existing implementations be.
>
> [...]
Patches 1 & 2 applied to powerpc/next.
[1/7] selftests/powerpc: Use mfspr/mtspr macros
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/aecfd680099ba518c34dff2941017c5aa97def52
[2/7] selftests/powerpc: Add ptrace setup_core_pattern() null-terminator
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/94ba4f2c33f42dae7813dc169a177e922a39560c
cheers
