linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/6] KVM: selftests: Perf test cleanups and memslot modification test

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:42:47 -0800
From:   Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>, Jacob Xu <jacobhxu@...gle.com>,
        Makarand Sonare <makarandsonare@...gle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: selftests: Perf test cleanups and memslot
 modification test

This series contains a few cleanups that didn't make it into previous
series, including some cosmetic changes and small bug fixes. The series
also lays the groundwork for a memslot modification test which stresses
the memslot update and page fault code paths in an attempt to expose races.

Tested: dirty_log_perf_test, memslot_modification_stress_test, and
	demand_paging_test were run, with all the patches in this series
	applied, on an Intel Skylake machine.

	echo Y > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/tdp_mmu; \
	./memslot_modification_stress_test -i 1000 -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./memslot_modification_stress_test -i 1000 -v 64 -b 64M -o; \
	./dirty_log_perf_test -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./dirty_log_perf_test -v 64 -b 64M -o; \
	./demand_paging_test -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./demand_paging_test -v 64 -b 64M -o; \
	echo N > /sys/module/kvm/parameters/tdp_mmu; \
	./memslot_modification_stress_test -i 1000 -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./memslot_modification_stress_test -i 1000 -v 64 -b 64M -o; \
	./dirty_log_perf_test -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./dirty_log_perf_test -v 64 -b 64M -o; \
	./demand_paging_test -v 64 -b 1G; \
	./demand_paging_test -v 64 -b 64M -o

	The tests behaved as expected, and fixed the problem of the
	population stage being skipped in dirty_log_perf_test. This can be
	seen in the output, with the population stage taking about the time
	dirty pass 1 took and dirty pass 1 falling closer to the times for
	the other passes.

Note that when running these tests, the -o option causes the test to take
much longer as the work each vCPU must do increases proportional to the
number of vCPUs.

You can view this series in Gerrit at:
https://linux-review.googlesource.com/c/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux/+/7216

Ben Gardon (6):
  KVM: selftests: Rename timespec_diff_now to timespec_elapsed
  KVM: selftests: Avoid flooding debug log while populating memory
  KVM: selftests: Convert iterations to int in dirty_log_perf_test
  KVM: selftests: Fix population stage in dirty_log_perf_test
  KVM: selftests: Add option to overlap vCPU memory access
  KVM: selftests: Add memslot modification stress test

 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore        |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile          |   1 +
 .../selftests/kvm/demand_paging_test.c        |  40 +++-
 .../selftests/kvm/dirty_log_perf_test.c       |  72 +++---
 .../selftests/kvm/include/perf_test_util.h    |   4 +-
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/test_util.h |   2 +-
 .../selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c        |  25 ++-
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/test_util.c   |   2 +-
 .../kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c    | 211 ++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_modification_stress_test.c

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