Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] selftests/x86/amx: Update the ARCH_REQ_XCOMP_PERM test

Chang S. Bae
2022-03-23T21:28:24Z

On 3/23/2022 9:44 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> Running it on a machine which does not have AMX results in:
>
> amx_64: [FAIL] xstate cpuid: invalid tile data size/offset: 0/0: Success
>
> It's not a failure, really. Selftests are supposed to run on all
> machines and the proper thing to do if a hardware feature is not
> available is to SKIP the test and return 0.

Ah, right. The test should be just *skipped* on non-AMX or even
non-XSAVE systems.

Will follow up with a separate patch.

Thanks,
Chang