APPLIED: [B][SRU][PATCH 0/2] selftests: Remove broken Power9 paste tests and fix compilation issue

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2019-07-16 19:00:27 , Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> == SRU Justification ==
> With the Power9 copy_unaligned test removed in bug 1813118,
> we can now move forward and remove the broken paste_unaligned /
> paste_last_unaligned test in selftests/powerpc.
> 
> From the commit message:
>     Paste on POWER9 only works to accelerators and not on real memory.
>     So these tests just generate a SIGILL.
> 
> Actual test output:
>     test: test_paste_unaligned
>     tags: git_version:unknown
>     !! child died by signal 4
>     failure: test_paste_unaligned
>     not ok 1..2 selftests: paste_unaligned [FAIL]
>     selftests: paste_last_unaligned
>     ========================================
>     test: test_paste_last_unaligned
>     tags: git_version:unknown
>     !! child died by signal 4
>     failure: test_paste_last_unaligned
>     not ok 1..3 selftests: paste_last_unaligned [FAIL]
>     selftests: alignment_handler
> 
> (On Power8 these two test will be skipped)
> 
> This patchset will also address the compilation intrduced by b2d35fa
> (selftests: add headers_install to lib.mk) which landed with Bionic
> upstream stable patchset 2019-07-12 (bug 1836426)
> 
> == Fix ==
> * 525661ef (selftests/powerpc: Remove Power9 paste tests)
> * 7e0cf1c9 (selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change)
> 
> These has been applied in Disco.
> 
> As Cosmic will reach EOL soon, and we don't have alignment tests in
> Xenial, we only need this for Bionic.
> 
> == Test ==
> Patch tested on a P9 node "baltar", test build OK and these two tests
> were removed as expected.
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low.
> Code change limited to testing tools for Power9 and just removing
> broken tests, fix build error.
> 
> 
> Michael Ellerman (2):
>   selftests/powerpc: Remove Power9 paste tests
>   selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change
> 
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/.gitignore |  2 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/Makefile |  4 +-
>  .../powerpc/alignment/paste_last_unaligned.c       | 43 ----------------------
>  .../selftests/powerpc/alignment/paste_unaligned.c  | 43 ----------------------
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/Makefile  |  1 +
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/cache_shape/Makefile |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/Makefile |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/Makefile      |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/Makefile      |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/Makefile        |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/Makefile       |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/Makefile   |  1 +
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/Makefile  |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/Makefile    |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/signal/Makefile    |  1 +
>  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/Makefile |  1 +
>  .../selftests/powerpc/switch_endian/Makefile       |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/syscalls/Makefile  |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile        |  1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/vphn/Makefile      |  1 +
>  20 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/paste_last_unaligned.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/paste_unaligned.c
> 
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