Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] selftests/nolibc: remove the x32 testcase
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 08:20:37 EST
On October 8, 2026 11:07:42 AM GMT+02:00, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Support for the x32 ABI is about to be removed from the kernel itself.
>This will break the nolibc x32 testcase.
>
>Remove the testcase to avoid breaking the testsuite in general.
>
>This also ends official support from nolibc proper for x32. But as there
>is no clear x32-specific code in the nolibc codebase, there won't be a
>removal patch for that.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>---
> tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.nolibc | 6 ------
> tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh | 7 +------
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.nolibc b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.nolibc
>index f70c8dfca0186..895a6ea7a8e45 100644
>--- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.nolibc
>+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/Makefile.nolibc
>@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ XARCH_riscv = riscv64
> XARCH = $(or $(XARCH_$(ARCH)),$(ARCH))
>
> # map from user input variants to their kernel supported architectures
>-ARCH_x32 = x86
> ARCH_armthumb = arm
> ARCH_ppc = powerpc
> ARCH_ppc64 = powerpc
>@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ ARCH := $(or $(ARCH_$(XARCH)),$(XARCH))
> # kernel image names by architecture
> IMAGE_i386 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> IMAGE_x86_64 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
>-IMAGE_x32 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> IMAGE_x86 = arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> IMAGE_arm64 = arch/arm64/boot/Image
> IMAGE_arm = arch/arm/boot/zImage
>@@ -106,7 +104,6 @@ DEFCONFIG_sh4 = rts7751r2dplus_defconfig
> DEFCONFIG_openrisc = virt_defconfig
> DEFCONFIG = $(or $(DEFCONFIG_$(XARCH)),defconfig)
>
>-EXTRACONFIG_x32 = -e CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI
> EXTRACONFIG_arm = -e CONFIG_NAMESPACES
> EXTRACONFIG_armthumb = -e CONFIG_NAMESPACES
> EXTRACONFIG_sparc32 = -e CONFIG_TMPFS
>@@ -119,7 +116,6 @@ EXTRACONFIG = $(EXTRACONFIG_$(XARCH))
> TEST =
>
> # QEMU_ARCH: arch names used by qemu
>-QEMU_ARCH_x32 = x86_64
> QEMU_ARCH_x86 = x86_64
> QEMU_ARCH_arm64 = aarch64
> QEMU_ARCH_armthumb = arm
>@@ -151,7 +147,6 @@ endif
> # QEMU_ARGS : some arch-specific args to pass to qemu
> QEMU_ARGS_i386 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> QEMU_ARGS_x86_64 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
>-QEMU_ARGS_x32 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> QEMU_ARGS_x86 = -M pc -append "console=ttyS0,9600 i8042.noaux panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> QEMU_ARGS_arm64 = -M virt -cpu cortex-a53 -append "panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
> QEMU_ARGS_arm = -M virt -append "panic=-1 $(TEST:%=NOLIBC_TEST=%)"
>@@ -189,7 +184,6 @@ Q=@
> endif
>
> CFLAGS_i386 = $(call cc-option,-m32)
>-CFLAGS_x32 = -mx32
> CFLAGS_arm = -marm
> CFLAGS_armthumb = -mthumb -march=armv6t2
> CFLAGS_parisc32 = -mfast-indirect-calls
>diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh
>index dc0b1649c6419..20e0d2dc0e9b9 100755
>--- a/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh
>+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/run-tests.sh
>@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ test_mode=system
> werror=1
> llvm=
> all_archs=(
>- i386 x86_64 x32
>+ i386 x86_64
> arm64 arm armthumb
> mips32le mips32be mipsn32le mipsn32be mips64le mips64be
> openrisc
>@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ crosstool_arch() {
> mips*) echo mips;;
> s390*) echo s390;;
> sparc*) echo sparc64;;
>- x32*) echo x86_64;;
> parisc32) echo hppa;;
> *) echo "$1";;
> esac
>@@ -198,10 +197,6 @@ test_arch() {
> echo "Unsupported configuration"
> return
> fi
>- if [ "$arch" = "x32" ] && [ "$test_mode" = "user" ]; then
>- echo "Unsupported configuration"
>- return
>- fi
>
> mkdir -p "$build_dir"
> swallow_output "${MAKE[@]}" defconfig
>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin (Rosaic) <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>