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4*4882a593SmuzhiyunSignals Tests
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7*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Tests are built around a common main compilation unit: such shared main
8*4882a593Smuzhiyun  enforces a standard sequence of operations needed to perform a single
9*4882a593Smuzhiyun  signal-test (setup/trigger/run/result/cleanup)
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11*4882a593Smuzhiyun- The above mentioned ops are configurable on a test-by-test basis: each test
12*4882a593Smuzhiyun  is described (and configured) using the descriptor signals.h::struct tdescr
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14*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Each signal testcase is compiled into its own executable: a separate
15*4882a593Smuzhiyun  executable is used for each test since many tests complete successfully
16*4882a593Smuzhiyun  by receiving some kind of fatal signal from the Kernel, so it's safer
17*4882a593Smuzhiyun  to run each test unit in its own standalone process, so as to start each
18*4882a593Smuzhiyun  test from a clean slate.
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20*4882a593Smuzhiyun- New tests can be simply defined in testcases/ dir providing a proper struct
21*4882a593Smuzhiyun  tdescr overriding all the defaults we wish to change (as of now providing a
22*4882a593Smuzhiyun  custom run method is mandatory though)
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24*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Signals' test-cases hereafter defined belong currently to two
25*4882a593Smuzhiyun  principal families:
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27*4882a593Smuzhiyun  - 'mangle_' tests: a real signal (SIGUSR1) is raised and used as a trigger
28*4882a593Smuzhiyun    and then the test case code modifies the signal frame from inside the
29*4882a593Smuzhiyun    signal handler itself.
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31*4882a593Smuzhiyun  - 'fake_sigreturn_' tests: a brand new custom artificial sigframe structure
32*4882a593Smuzhiyun    is placed on the stack and a sigreturn syscall is called to simulate a
33*4882a593Smuzhiyun    real signal return. This kind of tests does not use a trigger usually and
34*4882a593Smuzhiyun    they are just fired using some simple included assembly trampoline code.
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36*4882a593Smuzhiyun - Most of these tests are successfully passing if the process gets killed by
37*4882a593Smuzhiyun   some fatal signal: usually SIGSEGV or SIGBUS. Since while writing this
38*4882a593Smuzhiyun   kind of tests it is extremely easy in fact to end-up injecting other
39*4882a593Smuzhiyun   unrelated SEGV bugs in the testcases, it becomes extremely tricky to
40*4882a593Smuzhiyun   be really sure that the tests are really addressing what they are meant
41*4882a593Smuzhiyun   to address and they are not instead falling apart due to unplanned bugs
42*4882a593Smuzhiyun   in the test code.
43*4882a593Smuzhiyun   In order to alleviate the misery of the life of such test-developer, a few
44*4882a593Smuzhiyun   helpers are provided:
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46*4882a593Smuzhiyun   - a couple of ASSERT_BAD/GOOD_CONTEXT() macros to easily parse a ucontext_t
47*4882a593Smuzhiyun     and verify if it is indeed GOOD or BAD (depending on what we were
48*4882a593Smuzhiyun     expecting), using the same logic/perspective as in the arm64 Kernel signals
49*4882a593Smuzhiyun     routines.
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51*4882a593Smuzhiyun   - a sanity mechanism to be used in 'fake_sigreturn_'-alike tests: enabled by
52*4882a593Smuzhiyun     default it takes care to verify that the test-execution had at least
53*4882a593Smuzhiyun     successfully progressed up to the stage of triggering the fake sigreturn
54*4882a593Smuzhiyun     call.
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56*4882a593Smuzhiyun  In both cases test results are expected in terms of:
57*4882a593Smuzhiyun   - some fatal signal sent by the Kernel to the test process
58*4882a593Smuzhiyun  or
59*4882a593Smuzhiyun  - analyzing some final regs state
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