From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: arm64: Add build and documentation for FP tests
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:38:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200901153840.GA6642@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200819114837.51466-7-broonie@kernel.org>
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:48:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Integrate the FP tests with the build system and add some documentation
> for the ones run outside the kselftest infrastructure. The content in
> the README was largely written by Dave Martin with edits by me.
Apologies, I never got around to looking at all this, though it seems
reasonable.
I don't know whether this is worth following up with a TODO?
Some things I was aware of:
* The sve-test/fpsimd-test programs contain a lot of common
boilerplate and could probably be merged together.
* A fair amount of the asm in sve-test/fpsimd-test could be converted
to C, with -fgeneral-regs-only. This would be helpful since the
code is highly unmaintainable in its current form (I know, I've
tried). Calling library functions would still be a problem, but we
might be able to lift a printf implementation and some basic syscall
wrappers from elsewhere rather than reimplementing everything from
scratch.
* The sve-stress/fpsimd-stress scripts could likewise be merged.
Also, doing the required process management from the shell seems a
doomed enterprise and it never really worked 100% right. Eventually
it might be worth rewriting a common test driver for these in a real
language.
* While the tests confirm that basic aspects of the SVE support don't
explode, there is not a lot of checking that the kernel does the
_correct_ thing -- so there's scope for improvement here if somebody
gets around to it.
Cheers
---Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-19 11:48 [PATCH v2 0/6] selftests: arm64: Add floating point selftests Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] selftests: arm64: Test case for enumeration of SVE vector lengths Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] selftests: arm64: Add test for the SVE ptrace interface Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] selftests: arm64: Add stress tests for FPSMID and SVE context switching Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] selftests: arm64: Add utility to set SVE vector lengths Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] selftests: arm64: Add wrapper scripts for stress tests Mark Brown
2020-08-19 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] selftests: arm64: Add build and documentation for FP tests Mark Brown
2020-09-01 15:38 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2020-09-01 15:47 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-01 16:06 ` Dave Martin
2020-08-31 21:45 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] selftests: arm64: Add floating point selftests Shuah Khan
2020-09-01 13:21 ` Will Deacon
2020-09-01 15:27 ` Dave Martin
2020-09-18 16:17 ` Will Deacon
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