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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/x86: sysret_rip: Add more syscall
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To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>,
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On 1/23/23 18:27, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
> 
> Test that:
> 
>   - "syscall" in a FRED system doesn't clobber %rcx and %r11.
>   - "syscall" in a non-FRED system sets %rcx=%rip and %r11=%rflags.
> 
> Test them out with a trivial system call like __NR_getppid and friends
> which are extremely likely to return with SYSRET on an IDT system; check
> that it returns a nonnegative value and then save the result.
> 

"Nonnegative" here should be "valid"; it is an implementation detail 
that the error value is -1.

However, you are not checking that you don't get a mix of REGS_SAVED and 
REGS_SYSRET, which is a major part of the point.

	-hpa