linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] KVM: selftests: Add support for creating non-default type VMs

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:47:44 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Cc:     Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@...gle.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>,
        Marc Orr <marcorr@...gle.com>, Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@...wei.com>,
        Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...el.com>,
        "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>,
        Like Xu <like.xu@...ux.intel.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE (KVM)" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] KVM: selftests: Add support for creating
 non-default type VMs

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, David Matlack wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:37:54AM -0700, Erdem Aktas wrote:
> > Currently vm_create function only creates KVM_X86_LEGACY_VM type VMs.
> > Changing the vm_create function to accept type parameter to create
> > new VM types.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>

*-by tags should not be added unless explicitly provided.  IIRC, our internal
gerrit will convert +1 to Reviewed-by, but I don't think that's the case here.
This applies to all patches in this series.

See "Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:" in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more info.

> > Reviewed-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@...gle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
> 
> (aside from the nit below)
> 
> > ---
> >  .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h  |  1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 29 +++++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > index d53bfadd2..c63df42d6 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ int vcpu_enable_cap(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpu_id,
> >  void vm_enable_dirty_ring(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t ring_size);
> >  
> >  struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm);
> > +struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm, int type);
> 
> nit: Consider using a more readable function name such as
> vm_create_with_type().

Ha!  This is why I don't like doing internal reviews :-D

Erdem originally had vm_create_type(), I suggested __vm_create() as the double
underscore scheme is more common in the kernel for cases where there's a default
wrapper and an inner helper that implements the full API.

Convention aside, the argument againsts ...with_type() are that it doesn't scale,
e.g. if someone adds another parameter parameter for which vm_create() provides a
default, and it doesn't self-document the relationship between vm_create() and
the inner helper, e.g. by convention, based on names alone I know that vm_create()
likely is a wrapper around __vm_create().

Compare that with the existing

  vm_create_default_with_vcpus()
  vm_create_default()
  vm_create_with_vcpus()
  vm_create()

where the relationship between all the helpers is not immediately clear, and
vm_create_with_vcpus() is a misnomer because it does much more than call vm_create()
and instantiate vCPUs, e.g. it also instantiates the IRQ chip and loads the test
into guest memory.