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Commit d5859510 authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown Committed by Catalin Marinas
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kselftest/arm64: Include kernel mode NEON in fp-stress



Currently fp-stress only covers userspace use of floating point, it does
not cover any kernel mode uses.  Since currently kernel mode floating
point usage can't be preempted and there are explicit preemption points in
the existing implementations this isn't so important for fp-stress but
when we readd preemption it will be good to try to exercise it.

When the arm64 accelerated crypto operations are implemented we can
relatively straightforwardly trigger kernel mode floating point usage by
using the crypto userspace API to hash data, using the splice() support
in an effort to minimise copying.  We use /proc/crypto to check which
accelerated implementations are available, picking the first symmetric
hash we find.  We run the kernel mode test unconditionally, replacing the
second copy of the FPSIMD testcase for systems with FPSIMD only. If we
don't think there are any suitable kernel mode implementations we fall back
to running another copy of fpsimd-stress.

There are a number issues with this approach, we don't actually verify
that we are using an accelerated (or even CPU) implementation of the
algorithm being tested and even with attempting to use splice() to
minimise copying there are sizing limits on how much data gets spliced
at once.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240521-arm64-fp-stress-kernel-v1-1-e38f107baad4@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 83a7eefe
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