Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] selftests/x86: sysret_rip update for FRED system

From: Andrew Cooper
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 16:51:48 EST


On 24/01/2023 9:32 pm, Li, Xin3 wrote:
>> From: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This is an RFC patchset v3:
>> sysret_rip test update for Intel FRED architecture.
>>
>> Xin Li reported sysret_rip test fails at:
>>
>> assert(ctx->uc_mcontext.gregs[REG_EFL] ==
>> ctx->uc_mcontext.gregs[REG_R11]);
> On FRED systems, flags is 0x200a93 and r11 is 0xfeedfacedeadbeef here.

Is this under SIMICS, or elsewhere?  It's doubly weird that flags/%r11
match, but %rip/%rcx don't.

~Andrew