linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test

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Message-ID: <CAJve8omitHDpijJaLV_wHk+5LXpsBUWF8_eTD4MeWKM-807Siw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Dec 2023 10:42:24 +0800
From:   Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
Cc:     Haibo Xu <haibo1.xu@...el.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 2:21 PM Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 5:52 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 09:37:03AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> > > Add a KVM selftests to validate the Sstc timer functionality.
> > > The test was ported from arm64 arch timer test.
> >
> > I just tried this test out. Running it over and over again on QEMU I see
> > it works sometimes, but it frequently fails with the
> > GUEST_ASSERT_EQ(config_iter + 1, irq_iter) assert and at least once I
> > also saw the __GUEST_ASSERT(xcnt >= cmp) assert.
> >
>
> Good catch!
>
> I can also reproduce this issue and it is a common problem for both
> arm64 and riscv because it also happens in a arm64 Qemu VM.
>
> It seems like a synchronization issue between host and guest shared
> variables. Will double check the test code.
>
> > Thanks,
> > drew

Hi Andrew,

After several rounds of regression testing, some findings:
1. The intermittent failure also happened on ARM64 Qemu VM, and even
in the initial arch_timer commit(4959d8650e9f4).
2. it didn't happen on a ARM64 HW(but a different failure occured
during stress test)
3. The failure have a close relationship with
TIMER_TEST_ERR_MARGIN_US(default 100), and after increasing
     the macro to 300, the failure couldn't reproduced in 1000 loops
stress test in RISC-V Qemu VM

So my suggestion is we can expose the TIMER_TEST_ERR_MARGIN_US
parameter as an arch_timer test arg parameter
and tune it based on a specific test environment.

What's your opinion?

Regards,
Haibo