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Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:12:39 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 05:45:09PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:02:27AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > [Cc Kees in case he knows something about where arch specific tests live
> >  or whether we have a framework for this]
> > [...]
> > It feels like we must've run into the "this is architecture
> > specific"-and-we-want-to-test-this issue before... Do we have a place
> > where architecture specific selftests live?
> 
> For arch-specific selftests there are tools/testing/selftests/$ARCH
> directories, although in this case maybe it's better to have an #ifdef
> in a header so that architectures with __builtin_thread_pointer can use
> that.

Yup, I agree: that's the current best-practice for arch-specific
selftests.

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Kees Cook