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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] selftests/vm/pkeys: Bug fixes and a new test
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Date:   Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:24:50 +0530
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Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> writes:

> There has been a lot of activity on the x86 front around the XSAVE
> architecture which is used to context-switch processor state (among
> other things).  In addition, AMD has recently joined the protection
> keys club by adding processor support for PKU.
>
> The AMD implementation helped uncover a kernel bug around the PKRU
> "init state", which actually applied to Intel's implementation but
> was just harder to hit.  This series adds a test which is expected
> to help find this class of bug both on AMD and Intel.  All the work
> around pkeys on x86 also uncovered a few bugs in the selftest.
>
> Any testing of this new code (especially from my powerpc friends)
> would be appreciated.

I tested this on ppc64.

Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>

>
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> Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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> Cc: "Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario" <desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com>
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