[SRU][N][PATCH v3 0/4] Fix time-out issues on powerpc when running ubuntu_kernel_selftests

Zixing Liu zixing.liu at canonical.com
Fri Apr 24 02:44:28 UTC 2026


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2141536

SRU Justification:

[Impact]

Some PowerPC tests from Ubuntu_kernel_selftests keep timing out.

[Fix]

Backport upstream patchset:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241106130453.1741013-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au

[Test Plan]

Running all the kernel selftests for the PowerPC platform to see if they still
times out.

[Where problems could occur]

The patches may introduce new test failures due to improved error detection
that may reveal previously passing tests now fail.

[Other Info]

N/A

Michael Ellerman (4):
  selftests/powerpc: Lower run time of count_stcx_fail test
  selftests/powerpc: Give all tests 2 minutes timeout
  selftests/powerpc: Return errors from all tests
  selftests/powerpc: Detect taint change in mitigation patching test

 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/settings        | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/cache_shape/settings      | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/settings        | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dexcr/settings            | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dscr/settings             | 2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/lib/settings              | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/settings             | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mce/settings              | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/settings               | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/settings          | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_attributes/settings  | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_sysparm/settings     | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_vpd/settings         | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/count_stcx_fail.c     | 3 ---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/settings              | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/settings       | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/settings           | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/scripts/settings          | 1 +
 .../selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh     | 8 ++++----
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/settings         | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/signal/sigfuz.c           | 2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/settings      | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/switch_endian/settings    | 1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/syscalls/settings         | 1 +
 .../selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-signal-context-force-tm.c     | 2 +-
 .../testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/tm-signal-sigreturn-nt.c | 3 +--
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/vphn/settings             | 1 +
 27 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/alignment/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/cache_shape/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/dexcr/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/lib/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/math/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mce/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/nx-gzip/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_attributes/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_sysparm/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/papr_vpd/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/ptrace/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/scripts/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/stringloops/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/switch_endian/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/syscalls/settings
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/vphn/settings

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2.53.0




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