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<title>selftests/powerpc: Add test of mitigation patching</title>
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<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
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<published>2021-05-07T06:42:25+00:00</published>
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We recently discovered some of our mitigation patching was not safe
against other CPUs running concurrently.

Add a test which enable/disables all mitigations in a tight loop while
also running some stress load. On an unpatched system this almost always
leads to an oops and panic/reboot, but we also check if the kernel
becomes tainted in case we have a non-fatal oops.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210507064225.1556312-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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