linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: selftests: Enable dirty_log

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Message-ID: <afdf2b18-47fd-aa48-41b7-130122590068@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:58:23 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: selftests: Enable dirty_log_test on s390x

On 31/07/19 10:19, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> @@ -293,6 +341,10 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, unsigned long iterations,
>>>  	 * case where the size is not aligned to 64 pages.
>>>  	 */
>>>  	guest_num_pages = (1ul << (30 - guest_page_shift)) + 16;
>>> +#ifdef __s390x__
>>> +	/* Round up to multiple of 1M (segment size) */
>>> +	guest_num_pages = (guest_num_pages + 0xff) & ~0xffUL;
>> We could maybe do this for all architectures as well.
> It's really only needed on s390x, so I think we should keep the #ifdef here.

Yes, on non-s390 we should keep covering the case where the size is not
a multiple of BITS_PER_LONG.

Paolo