x86: X86 instruction decoder build-time selftest

Add a user-space selftest of x86 instruction decoder at kernel build
time.
When CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST=y, Kbuild builds a test harness of x86
instruction decoder and performs it after building vmlinux.
The test compares the results of objdump and x86 instruction decoder
code and check there are no differences.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203421.31965.29006.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index d105f29bb6bb..7d0b681a132b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ config X86_DS_SELFTEST
 config HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT
         def_bool y
 
+config X86_DECODER_SELFTEST
+     bool "x86 instruction decoder selftest"
+     depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+        ---help---
+         Perform x86 instruction decoder selftests at build time.
+         This option is useful for checking the sanity of x86 instruction
+         decoder code.
+         If unsure, say "N".
+
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