From: Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: "Haibo Xu" <haibo1.xu@intel.com>,
"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
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"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>, "Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
"Oliver Upton" <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
"Suzuki K Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
"Zenghui Yu" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
"Anup Patel" <anup@brainfault.org>,
"Atish Patra" <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
"Guo Ren" <guoren@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Daniel Henrique Barboza" <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch_timer test code
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 14:58:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJve8okKAMp5dG-=rwmP+8ndk_jzOvAz5s8uhU8JdMer5WbEng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230906-6996fca9840e6de7b75692ec@orel>
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:14:52AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 08:59:24PM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> ...
> > > > +
> > > > +#include "kvm_util.h"
> > > > +
> > > > +#define NR_VCPUS_DEF 4
> > > > +#define NR_TEST_ITERS_DEF 5
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_PERIOD_MS_DEF 10
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_ERR_MARGIN_US 100
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_MIGRATION_FREQ_MS 2
> > > > +
> > > > +#define msecs_to_usecs(msec) ((msec) * 1000LL)
> > >
> > > I'd move the above to include/test_util.h
> > >
> >
> > Yes, msecs_to_usecs() macro should be a common API for all the tests.
> >
> > > > +
> > > > +#define GICD_BASE_GPA 0x8000000ULL
> > > > +#define GICR_BASE_GPA 0x80A0000ULL
> > >
> > > These defines belong in aarch64/arch_timer.c
> > >
> >
> > These 2 defines were also defined in other test cases, shall we move them
> > to an aarch64 specific header file? Maybe
> > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/gic.h?
>
> Even though currently all the aarch64 tests that use the gic are using
> these defines for the base addresses, each test is free to choose whatever
> base addresses it likes. I'd just move them back to aarch64/arch_timer.c
> for now. Consolidating them into shared, default base addresses, if done
> at all, is work for another series.
>
Ok, will move them to aarch64/arch_timer.c for this test.
> Thanks,
> drew
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From: Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: "Haibo Xu" <haibo1.xu@intel.com>,
"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>, "Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
"Oliver Upton" <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
"Suzuki K Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
"Zenghui Yu" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
"Anup Patel" <anup@brainfault.org>,
"Atish Patra" <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
"Guo Ren" <guoren@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Daniel Henrique Barboza" <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>,
"Greentime Hu" <greentime.hu@sifive.com>,
"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
"Ricardo Koller" <ricarkol@google.com>,
"Vishal Annapurve" <vannapurve@google.com>,
"Aaron Lewis" <aaronlewis@google.com>,
"David Matlack" <dmatlack@google.com>,
"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
"Ackerley Tng" <ackerleytng@google.com>,
"Mingwei Zhang" <mizhang@google.com>,
"Vipin Sharma" <vipinsh@google.com>,
"Lei Wang" <lei4.wang@intel.com>, "Like Xu" <likexu@tencent.com>,
"Peter Gonda" <pgonda@google.com>,
"Maxim Levitsky" <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
"Michal Luczaj" <mhal@rbox.co>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch_timer test code
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 14:58:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJve8okKAMp5dG-=rwmP+8ndk_jzOvAz5s8uhU8JdMer5WbEng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230906-6996fca9840e6de7b75692ec@orel>
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:14:52AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 08:59:24PM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> ...
> > > > +
> > > > +#include "kvm_util.h"
> > > > +
> > > > +#define NR_VCPUS_DEF 4
> > > > +#define NR_TEST_ITERS_DEF 5
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_PERIOD_MS_DEF 10
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_ERR_MARGIN_US 100
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_MIGRATION_FREQ_MS 2
> > > > +
> > > > +#define msecs_to_usecs(msec) ((msec) * 1000LL)
> > >
> > > I'd move the above to include/test_util.h
> > >
> >
> > Yes, msecs_to_usecs() macro should be a common API for all the tests.
> >
> > > > +
> > > > +#define GICD_BASE_GPA 0x8000000ULL
> > > > +#define GICR_BASE_GPA 0x80A0000ULL
> > >
> > > These defines belong in aarch64/arch_timer.c
> > >
> >
> > These 2 defines were also defined in other test cases, shall we move them
> > to an aarch64 specific header file? Maybe
> > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/gic.h?
>
> Even though currently all the aarch64 tests that use the gic are using
> these defines for the base addresses, each test is free to choose whatever
> base addresses it likes. I'd just move them back to aarch64/arch_timer.c
> for now. Consolidating them into shared, default base addresses, if done
> at all, is work for another series.
>
Ok, will move them to aarch64/arch_timer.c for this test.
> Thanks,
> drew
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From: Haibo Xu <xiaobo55x@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Cc: "Haibo Xu" <haibo1.xu@intel.com>,
"Paul Walmsley" <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
"Albert Ou" <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>, "Marc Zyngier" <maz@kernel.org>,
"Oliver Upton" <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
"Suzuki K Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
"Zenghui Yu" <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
"Anup Patel" <anup@brainfault.org>,
"Atish Patra" <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
"Guo Ren" <guoren@kernel.org>,
"Conor Dooley" <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
"Daniel Henrique Barboza" <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>,
"Greentime Hu" <greentime.hu@sifive.com>,
"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
"Ricardo Koller" <ricarkol@google.com>,
"Vishal Annapurve" <vannapurve@google.com>,
"Aaron Lewis" <aaronlewis@google.com>,
"David Matlack" <dmatlack@google.com>,
"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
"Ackerley Tng" <ackerleytng@google.com>,
"Mingwei Zhang" <mizhang@google.com>,
"Vipin Sharma" <vipinsh@google.com>,
"Lei Wang" <lei4.wang@intel.com>, "Like Xu" <likexu@tencent.com>,
"Peter Gonda" <pgonda@google.com>,
"Maxim Levitsky" <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
"Michal Luczaj" <mhal@rbox.co>,
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kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch_timer test code
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 14:58:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJve8okKAMp5dG-=rwmP+8ndk_jzOvAz5s8uhU8JdMer5WbEng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230906-6996fca9840e6de7b75692ec@orel>
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 2:41 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:14:52AM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 9:24 PM Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 08:59:24PM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
> ...
> > > > +
> > > > +#include "kvm_util.h"
> > > > +
> > > > +#define NR_VCPUS_DEF 4
> > > > +#define NR_TEST_ITERS_DEF 5
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_PERIOD_MS_DEF 10
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_ERR_MARGIN_US 100
> > > > +#define TIMER_TEST_MIGRATION_FREQ_MS 2
> > > > +
> > > > +#define msecs_to_usecs(msec) ((msec) * 1000LL)
> > >
> > > I'd move the above to include/test_util.h
> > >
> >
> > Yes, msecs_to_usecs() macro should be a common API for all the tests.
> >
> > > > +
> > > > +#define GICD_BASE_GPA 0x8000000ULL
> > > > +#define GICR_BASE_GPA 0x80A0000ULL
> > >
> > > These defines belong in aarch64/arch_timer.c
> > >
> >
> > These 2 defines were also defined in other test cases, shall we move them
> > to an aarch64 specific header file? Maybe
> > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/aarch64/gic.h?
>
> Even though currently all the aarch64 tests that use the gic are using
> these defines for the base addresses, each test is free to choose whatever
> base addresses it likes. I'd just move them back to aarch64/arch_timer.c
> for now. Consolidating them into shared, default base addresses, if done
> at all, is work for another series.
>
Ok, will move them to aarch64/arch_timer.c for this test.
> Thanks,
> drew
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2023-09-02 12:59 [PATCH v2 0/8] RISCV: Add kvm Sstc timer selftest Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] KVM: selftests: Unify the codes for guest exception handling Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 11:15 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 11:15 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 11:15 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 2:15 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 2:15 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 2:15 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] KVM: arm64: selftest: Split arch_timer test code Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 13:24 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:24 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:24 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 2:14 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 2:14 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 2:14 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 3:44 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 3:44 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 3:44 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 7:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 7:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 7:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 9:01 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 9:01 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 9:01 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:41 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 6:41 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 6:41 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 6:58 ` Haibo Xu [this message]
2023-09-06 6:58 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:58 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] tools: riscv: Add header file csr.h Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 13:26 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:26 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:26 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:33 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:33 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:33 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 6:35 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:35 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:35 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 7:13 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 7:13 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 7:13 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 9:09 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 9:09 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 9:09 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 13:47 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 13:47 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 13:47 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] KVM: riscv: selftests: Switch to use macro from csr.h Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 13:31 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:31 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:31 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 6:56 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:56 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 6:56 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add exception handling support Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 13:46 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:46 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:46 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add guest helper to get vcpu id Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 13:48 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:48 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 13:48 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] KVM: riscv: selftest: Change vcpu_has_ext to a common function Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 14:04 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 14:04 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 14:04 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 10:10 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 10:10 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 10:10 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 3:57 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 3:57 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 3:57 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 9:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 9:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 9:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 9:18 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 9:18 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 9:18 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] KVM: riscv: selftests: Add sstc timer test Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-02 12:59 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-04 14:58 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 14:58 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-04 14:58 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 4:20 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 4:20 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 4:20 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-07 19:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 19:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-07 19:01 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-08 1:19 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-08 1:19 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-08 1:19 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-08 2:36 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-08 2:36 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-08 2:36 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-05 10:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] RISCV: Add kvm Sstc timer selftest Andrew Jones
2023-09-05 10:36 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-05 10:36 ` Andrew Jones
2023-09-06 1:23 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 1:23 ` Haibo Xu
2023-09-06 1:23 ` Haibo Xu
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