selftests/powerpc: New PTRACE_SYSEMU test

This patch adds a new test for the new PTRACE_SYSEMU ptrace request.

This test also relies on PTRACE_GETREGS and PTRACE_SETREGS requests to
run properly, since the trace instruction (gettid() syscall) is being
modified at run-time (by PTRACE_SETREGS) and re-executed three times.
PTRACE_GETREGS is being used to check that the registers are still
sane.

This test basically creates a child process that executes syscalls
and the parent process check if it is being traced appropriately.  The
parent process guarantees that the SYSCALLs are being traced, with
PTRACE_SYSEMU, and ptrace stops the child application before a syscall is
executed. The way the tests validates it, is by guaranteeing that the
system calls arguments, as argv[0] (r3) which is the same register that
will have the syscall return value on powerpc, are not being corrupted on
PTRACE_SYSEMU with a return value, i.e, it continues to have the current
arguments instead, meaning that the registers where not clobbered.

This test is basically the same test for x86 located at
tools/testing/selftests/x86/ptrace_syscall.c, limited to test PTRACE_SYSEMU
request, and ported to PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

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