On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 17:01:54 UTC, Breno Leitao wrote: > This is a new selftest that raises SIGUSR1 signals and handles it in a set > of different ways, trying to create different scenario for testing > purpose. > > This test works raising a signal and calling sigreturn interleaved with > TM operations, as starting, suspending and terminating a transaction. The > test depends on random numbers, and, based on them, it sets different TM > states. > > Other than that, the test fills out the user context struct that is passed > to the sigreturn system call with random data, in order to make sure that > the signal handler syscall can handle different and invalid states > properly. > > This selftest has command line parameters to control what kind of tests the > user wants to run, as for example, if a transaction should be started prior > to signal being raised, or, after the signal being raised and before the > sigreturn. If no parameter is given, the default is enabling all options. > > This test does not check if the user context is being read and set > properly by the kernel. Its purpose, at this time, is basically > guaranteeing that the kernel does not crash on invalid scenarios. > > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <lei...@debian.org>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/83e367f9ad18d42a1883ee29f20608a2 cheers
