Re: [PATCH 3/3] selftests: vDSO: chacha: Provide default definition of HWCAP_S390_VXRS
From: Heiko Carstens
Date: Tue Mar 25 2025 - 03:21:00 EST
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 07:48:48AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 04:55:13PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 03:03:17PM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > > s390 does not provide a hwcap.h UAPI header.
> > >
> > > Add an inline definition for the constant HWCAP_S390_VXRS until a proper
> > > UAPI header is introduced.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 210860e7f733 ("selftests: vDSO: check cpu caps before running chacha test")
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_chacha.c | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
...
> > > #elif defined(__s390x__)
> > > +#ifndef HWCAP_S390_VXRS
> > > +#define HWCAP_S390_VXRS (1 << 11)
> > > +#endif
> > > static bool cpu_has_capabilities(void)
> > > {
> > > return getauxval(AT_HWCAP) & HWCAP_S390_VXRS;
> >
> > How did this cause a problem?
> >
> > Did you use something different than glibc(-devel) on your test
> > system? Just wondering since glibc-devel provides the define since
> > ages and is also required for getauxval().
>
> I used nolibc (from the kernel tree at tools/include/nolibc/) to make cross
> platform usage of the tests easier. See also [0].
> I got confused by the existence of hwcap.h in the kernel UAPI headers for
> various architectures and didn't check the libc headers.
> So this isn't really a bug right now, and the hwcap changes will only really be
> necessary once my other work goes upstream.
Thanks for explaining!
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>