Re: [V1 PATCH 2/5] selftests: kvm: Introduce kvm_arch_main and helpers

[David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 03:46:20PM -0700, Vishal Annapurve wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 12:46 AM Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@linux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2022 at 01:28:46AM +0000, Vishal Annapurve wrote:
> > > Introduce following APIs:
> > > 1) kvm_arch_main : to be called at the startup of each test.
> >
> > With this, AArch64 can move the content of its constructor,
> > init_guest_modes(), into kvm_arch_main(). Or, instead of the
> >
> >  main()
> >  {
> >     /* common main stuff */
> >     kvm_arch_main();
> >     __main();
> >  }
> >
> > approach we could have each arch provide a constructor
> >
> >  arch_init()
> >  {
> >     common_pre_main_stuff();
> >     /* arch specific pre-main stuff */
> >  }
> >
> > I personally prefer the latter.
> >
> 
> I agree with your suggestion of using constructors here. This will
> help avoid changes in all the selftests.
> Maybe I can add a common constructor that can invoke arch specific
> init. I will add this change in the next series.

In case anyone else is confused like me: "constructor" refers to
__attribute__ ((constructor)), which causes the function to run before
main().

I have a slight preference for having as few constructors as possible,
since they are somewhat subtle. So how about one constructor for all
selftests, e.g.:

void __attribute__ ((constructor)) kvm_selftest_init(void)
{
        /* Tell stdout not to buffer its content. */
        setbuf(stdout, NULL);

        kvm_selftest_arch_init();
}

Per-arch:

void kvm_selftest_arch_init(void)
{
        /* arch-specific pre-main stuff */
}