From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Cc: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
borntraeger@linux.ibm.com, frankja@linux.ibm.com,
imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, anup@brainfault.org,
atish.patra@linux.dev, zhaotianrui@loongson.cn,
maobibo@loongson.cn, chenhuacai@kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
oliver.upton@linux.dev, ajones@ventanamicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] KVM: selftest: Create KVM selftest runner
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:08:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aisHySKe0PwM5DSg@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEvNRgGrPKBXh=VA3QBLJOczKRpMOB4nDmZL0XRwV6B3PT_7+Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026, Ackerley Tng wrote:
> Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com> writes:
> My (future) use case is that with hugepages, I want to run something
> like
>
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=0
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=9
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=18
>
> And 0, 9 and 18 are the supported HugeTLB orders on the machine being
> tested. I'd like to iterate over supported HugeTLB orders at runner
> runtime instead of at build time.
No. The right way to handle this is to define testcases for the "interesting"
sizes, and then rely on the test itself to SKIP if the size is unsupported. This
is no different than a test that requires EPT, or nested VMX, or nested SVM, etc.
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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Cc: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
borntraeger@linux.ibm.com, frankja@linux.ibm.com,
imbrenda@linux.ibm.com, anup@brainfault.org,
atish.patra@linux.dev, zhaotianrui@loongson.cn,
maobibo@loongson.cn, chenhuacai@kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
oliver.upton@linux.dev, ajones@ventanamicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] KVM: selftest: Create KVM selftest runner
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:08:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aisHySKe0PwM5DSg@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEvNRgGrPKBXh=VA3QBLJOczKRpMOB4nDmZL0XRwV6B3PT_7+Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2026, Ackerley Tng wrote:
> Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com> writes:
> My (future) use case is that with hugepages, I want to run something
> like
>
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=0
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=9
> ./guest_memfd_test --order=18
>
> And 0, 9 and 18 are the supported HugeTLB orders on the machine being
> tested. I'd like to iterate over supported HugeTLB orders at runner
> runtime instead of at build time.
No. The right way to handle this is to define testcases for the "interesting"
sizes, and then rely on the test itself to SKIP if the size is unsupported. This
is no different than a test that requires EPT, or nested VMX, or nested SVM, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-11 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 19:41 [PATCH v4 0/9] KVM: selftests: Create KVM selftests runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] KVM: selftest: Create KVM selftest runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-06-11 1:17 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-06-11 1:17 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-06-11 19:08 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-06-11 19:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-06-11 20:16 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-06-11 20:16 ` Ackerley Tng
2026-06-12 1:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-06-12 1:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] KVM: selftests: Provide executables path option to the " Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] KVM: selftests: Add timeout option in selftests runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] KVM: selftests: Add option to save selftest runner output to a directory Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] KVM: selftests: Run tests concurrently in KVM selftests runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] KVM: selftests: Add various print flags to KVM selftest runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:41 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] KVM: selftests: Print sticky KVM selftests runner status at bottom Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] KVM: selftests: Add rule to generate default tests for KVM selftests runner Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] KVM: selftests: Provide README.rst " Vipin Sharma
2026-03-31 19:42 ` Vipin Sharma
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