While trying to test changes to the breakpoint implementation in the kernel, I tried to run the ptrace tests and met many unexplained skips and failures.
This series addresses the pain points of trying to run these tests and learn what they are doing. Benjamin Gray (4): Documentation/powerpc: Fix ptrace request names selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Explain why tests are skipped selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Fix typo in pid_max search error selftests/powerpc/ptrace: Declare test temporary variables as volatile Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst | 8 +++--- .../testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/child.h | 4 +-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/core-pkey.c | 2 +- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/perf-hwbreak.c | 2 +- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-hwbreak.c | 26 +++++++++---------- .../powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-perf-hwbreak.c | 6 ++--- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-pkey.c | 2 +- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tar.c | 2 +- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-gpr.c | 4 +-- .../powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-gpr.c | 4 +-- .../powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-tar.c | 4 +-- .../powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spd-vsx.c | 4 +-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-spr.c | 4 +-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-tar.c | 4 +-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-tm-vsx.c | 4 +-- .../selftests/powerpc/ptrace/ptrace-vsx.c | 2 +- 16 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) -- 2.41.0
