linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] KVM: selftests: Automatically do init

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Date:   Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:15:36 +0200
From:   Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@...ux.dev>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        kvm-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@...gle.com>,
        Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/7] KVM: selftests: Automatically do init_ucall() for
 non-barebones VMs

On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:25:18PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Do init_ucall() automatically during VM creation to kill two (three?)
> birds with one stone.
> 
> First, initializing ucall immediately after VM creations allows forcing
> aarch64's MMIO ucall address to immediately follow memslot0.  This is
> still somewhat fragile as tests could clobber the MMIO address with a
> new memslot, but it's safe-ish since tests have to be conversative when
> accounting for memslot0.  And this can be hardened in the future by
> creating a read-only memslot for the MMIO page (KVM ARM exits with MMIO
> if the guest writes to a read-only memslot).  Add a TODO to document that
> selftests can and should use a memslot for the ucall MMIO (doing so
> requires yet more rework because tests assumes thay can use all memslots
> except memslot0).
> 
> Second, initializing ucall for all VMs prepares for making ucall
> initialization meaningful on all architectures.  aarch64 is currently the
> only arch that needs to do any setup, but that will change in the future
> by switching to a pool-based implementation (instead of the current
> stack-based approach).
> 
> Lastly, defining the ucall MMIO address from common code will simplify
> switching all architectures (except s390) to a common MMIO-based ucall
> implementation (if there's ever sufficient motivation to do so).
> 
> Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
> ---
>  .../selftests/kvm/aarch64/arch_timer.c        |  1 -
>  .../selftests/kvm/aarch64/debug-exceptions.c  |  1 -
>  .../selftests/kvm/aarch64/hypercalls.c        |  1 -
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/aarch64/psci_test.c |  1 -
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/aarch64/vgic_init.c |  2 -
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/aarch64/vgic_irq.c  |  1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c  |  2 -
>  .../selftests/kvm/include/ucall_common.h      |  6 +--
>  .../selftests/kvm/kvm_page_table_test.c       |  1 -
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c | 54 ++-----------------
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 11 ++++
>  .../selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c        |  2 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/riscv/ucall.c |  2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/s390x/ucall.c |  2 +-
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/ucall.c  |  2 +-
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_perf_test.c |  1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/rseq_test.c       |  1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c      |  1 -
>  .../kvm/system_counter_offset_test.c          |  1 -
>  19 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@...ux.dev>

Thanks,
drew