From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Andrew Jones" <drjones@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Detect max PA width from cpuid
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:11:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00533992-f6e9-3c06-3342-b2b8a95b61d7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826075728.21646-1-peterx@redhat.com>
On 26/08/2019 09.57, Peter Xu wrote:
> The dirty_log_test is failing on some old machines like Xeon E3-1220
> with tripple faults when writting to the tracked memory region:
>
> Test iterations: 32, interval: 10 (ms)
> Testing guest mode: PA-bits:52, VA-bits:48, 4K pages
> guest physical test memory offset: 0x7fbffef000
> ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
> dirty_log_test.c:138: false
> pid=6137 tid=6139 - Success
> 1 0x0000000000401ca1: vcpu_worker at dirty_log_test.c:138
> 2 0x00007f3dd9e392dd: ?? ??:0
> 3 0x00007f3dd9b6a132: ?? ??:0
> Invalid guest sync status: exit_reason=SHUTDOWN
>
> It's because previously we moved the testing memory region from a
> static place (1G) to the top of the system's physical address space,
> meanwhile we stick to 39 bits PA for all the x86_64 machines. That's
> not true for machines like Xeon E3-1220 where it only supports 36.
>
> Let's unbreak this test by dynamically detect PA width from CPUID
> 0x80000008. Meanwhile, even allow kvm_get_supported_cpuid_index() to
> fail. I don't know whether that could be useful because I think
> 0x80000008 should be there for all x86_64 hosts, but I also think it's
> not really helpful to assert in the kvm_get_supported_cpuid_index().
[...]
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
> index 6cb34a0fa200..9de2fd310ac8 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86_64/processor.c
> @@ -760,9 +760,6 @@ kvm_get_supported_cpuid_index(uint32_t function, uint32_t index)
> break;
> }
> }
> -
> - TEST_ASSERT(entry, "Guest CPUID entry not found: (EAX=%x, ECX=%x).",
> - function, index);
> return entry;
> }
You should also adjust the comment of the function. It currently says
"Never returns NULL". Not it can return NULL.
And maybe add a TEST_ASSERT() to the other callers instead, which do not
expect a NULL to be returned?
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-26 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-26 7:57 [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Detect max PA width from cpuid Peter Xu
2019-08-26 8:11 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2019-08-26 8:18 ` Peter Xu
2019-08-26 8:25 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-08-26 10:47 ` Peter Xu
2019-08-26 11:34 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-08-26 11:39 ` Peter Xu
2019-08-26 11:09 ` Andrew Jones
2019-08-26 11:22 ` Peter Xu
2019-08-26 11:43 ` Andrew Jones
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