Re: [PATCH] selftests/prctl: select the tests by ARCH alone

[Sasha Levin]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 12:08:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rather than continuing to make this selftest x86-only, wouldn't it be
> better to fix things up so the other architectures also benefit?
>
> In fact someone proposed doing that just last month.  Oh, it was you ;)
>
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/20261014200127.1363472-1-sashal@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> what happened to that?

Right now I'm focusing on making our tests "pass", that is, not fail
horribly on non-x86 platforms that they were never designed for. At
the moment it's hard to tell whether anything actually failed, because
everything is red all the time, so my first priority is to get to a
state where we can detect real failures.

Once we're there we can start looking at enabling these tests on more
architectures, but it doesn't really make sense to do that before.

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Thanks,
Sasha