[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 0/5] x86: add HPET counter tests

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 0/5] x86: add HPET counter tests

[Igor Mammedov]

Changelog:
  v4:
     * fix smap/pku/pks tests that were failing CI
     * on_cpus() wasn't running task on CPUs above 255,
       fix x86/smp code to correctly account for APIC IDs
       above 255
     * bump max cpus limit to 1024 
     * hpet: count 0 latency as failure to avoid missing
       APs that doesn't run reader task
     * hpet: replace on_cpus() with on_cpus_async() to
       to run reader task only on explicitly selected APs.
  v3:
     * fix test running long time due to control thread
       also running read test and stalling starting other threads 
     * improve latency accuracy 
     * increase max number of vcpus to 448
       (that's what I had in hands for testing)

previous rev:
   "[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v3 0/2] x86: add HPET counter tests"
   https://yhbt.net/lore/all/20250718155738.1540072-1-imammedo@redhat.com/T/#t

Igor Mammedov (5):
  x86: resize id_map[] elements to u32
  x86: fix APs with APIC ID more that 255 not showing in id_map
  x86: move USERBASE to 32Mb in smap/pku/pks tests
  x86: bump number of max cpus to 1024
  x86: add HPET counter read micro benchmark and enable/disable torture
    tests

 lib/x86/apic.h       |  2 +-
 lib/x86/smp.h        |  2 +-
 lib/x86/apic.c       |  2 +-
 lib/x86/setup.c      |  2 +-
 x86/Makefile.common  |  2 +
 x86/cstart.S         |  2 +-
 x86/hpet_read_test.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 x86/pks.c            |  2 +-
 x86/pku.c            |  2 +-
 x86/smap.c           |  2 +-
 10 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 x86/hpet_read_test.c

-- 
2.47.1

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 1/5] x86: resize id_map[] elements to u32

[Igor Mammedov]

currently item size is u8, which would truncate APIC IDs that are
greater than 255.
Make it u32 so that it  cna hold x2apic IDs as well.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
 lib/x86/apic.h | 2 +-
 lib/x86/apic.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/x86/apic.h b/lib/x86/apic.h
index cac6eab1..a76b1138 100644
--- a/lib/x86/apic.h
+++ b/lib/x86/apic.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include "processor.h"
 #include "smp.h"
 
-extern u8 id_map[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
+extern u32 id_map[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
 
 typedef struct {
     uint8_t vector;
diff --git a/lib/x86/apic.c b/lib/x86/apic.c
index 0d151476..c538fb5f 100644
--- a/lib/x86/apic.c
+++ b/lib/x86/apic.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 static void *g_apic = (void *)APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE;
 static void *g_ioapic = (void *)IO_APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE;
 
-u8 id_map[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
+u32 id_map[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
 
 struct apic_ops {
 	u32 (*reg_read)(unsigned reg);
-- 
2.47.1

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 2/5] x86: fix APs with APIC ID more that 255 not showing in id_map

[Igor Mammedov]

save_id() is called too early and uses xapic ops, which is fine
up to 2566 cpus.
However with that any CPU with APIC ID more than 255 will set
wrong bit in online_cpus (since xapic ops only handle 8bit IDs,
thus losing all higher bit x2apic might have).
As result CPUs with id higher than 255 are not registered
(they will trumple over elements in range 0-255 instead).

To fix it move save_id() after the point where APs have
switched to x2apic ops, to get non-truncated ID.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
 lib/x86/setup.c | 2 +-
 x86/cstart.S    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/x86/setup.c b/lib/x86/setup.c
index 122f0af3..c2f1c6d0 100644
--- a/lib/x86/setup.c
+++ b/lib/x86/setup.c
@@ -391,9 +391,9 @@ void ap_start64(void)
 	setup_gdt_tss();
 	reset_apic();
 	load_idt();
-	save_id();
 	enable_apic();
 	enable_x2apic();
+	save_id();
 	ap_online();
 }
 
diff --git a/x86/cstart.S b/x86/cstart.S
index 8fb7bdef..dafb330d 100644
--- a/x86/cstart.S
+++ b/x86/cstart.S
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ ap_start32:
 	call load_idt
 	call prepare_32
 	call reset_apic
-	call save_id
 	call enable_apic
 	call enable_x2apic
+	call save_id
 	call ap_online
 
 	/* ap_online() should never return */
-- 
2.47.1

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 3/5] x86: move USERBASE to 32Mb in smap/pku/pks tests

[Igor Mammedov]

If number of CPUs is increased up to 2048, it will push
available pages above 16Mb range and make smap/pku/pks
tests fail with 'Could not reserve memory' error.

Move pages used by tests to 32Mb to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
 x86/pks.c  | 2 +-
 x86/pku.c  | 2 +-
 x86/smap.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/x86/pks.c b/x86/pks.c
index f4d6ac83..9b9519ba 100644
--- a/x86/pks.c
+++ b/x86/pks.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "x86/msr.h"
 
 #define PTE_PKEY_BIT     59
-#define SUPER_BASE        (1 << 23)
+#define SUPER_BASE        (2 << 24)
 #define SUPER_VAR(v)      (*((__typeof__(&(v))) (((unsigned long)&v) + SUPER_BASE)))
 
 volatile int pf_count = 0;
diff --git a/x86/pku.c b/x86/pku.c
index 6c0d72cc..544c6f24 100644
--- a/x86/pku.c
+++ b/x86/pku.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "x86/msr.h"
 
 #define PTE_PKEY_BIT     59
-#define USER_BASE        (1 << 23)
+#define USER_BASE        (2 << 24)
 #define USER_VAR(v)      (*((__typeof__(&(v))) (((unsigned long)&v) + USER_BASE)))
 
 volatile int pf_count = 0;
diff --git a/x86/smap.c b/x86/smap.c
index 9a823a55..53c9f4ce 100644
--- a/x86/smap.c
+++ b/x86/smap.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ asm ("pf_tss:\n"
         "jmp pf_tss\n\t");
 
 
-#define USER_BASE	(1 << 23)
+#define USER_BASE	(2 << 24)
 #define USER_VAR(v)	(*((__typeof__(&(v))) (((unsigned long)&v) + USER_BASE)))
 #define USER_ADDR(v)   ((void *)((unsigned long)(&v) + USER_BASE))
 
-- 
2.47.1

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 4/5] x86: bump number of max cpus to 1024

[Igor Mammedov]

this should allow run tests with more thatn 256 cpus

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
 lib/x86/smp.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/x86/smp.h b/lib/x86/smp.h
index bbe90daa..272aa5ee 100644
--- a/lib/x86/smp.h
+++ b/lib/x86/smp.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef _X86_SMP_H_
 #define _X86_SMP_H_
 
-#define MAX_TEST_CPUS (255)
+#define MAX_TEST_CPUS (1024)
 
 /*
  * Allocate 12KiB of data for per-CPU usage.  One page for per-CPU data, and
-- 
2.47.1

[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 5/5] x86: add HPET counter read micro benchmark and enable/disable torture tests

[Igor Mammedov]

test is to be used for benchmarking/validating HPET main counter reading

how to run:
   QEMU=/foo/qemu-system-x86_64 x86/run x86/hpet_read_test.flat -smp X
where X is desired number of logical CPUs to test with

it will 1st execute concurrent read benchmark
and after that it will run torture test enabling/disabling HPET counter,
while running readers in parallel. Goal is to verify counter that always
goes up.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
v4:
   * use global for test cycles and siplify code a bit
   * use cpu number instead of APCI ID as index into latency array
   * report failure if a cpu measured 0 latency
   * replace on_cpus() with on_cpu_async() to avoid BSP
     interrupting itself
   * drop volatile

v3:
   * measure lat inside threads so that, threads startup time wouldn't
     throw off results
   * fix BSP iterrupting itself by running read test and stalling
     other cpus as result. (fix it by exiting read test earlier if
     it's running on BSP)
v2:
   * fix broken timer going backwards check
   * report # of fails
   * warn if number of vcpus is not sufficient for torture test and skip
     it
   * style fixups
---
 x86/Makefile.common  |  2 +
 x86/hpet_read_test.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 x86/hpet_read_test.c

diff --git a/x86/Makefile.common b/x86/Makefile.common
index 5663a65d..ef0e09a6 100644
--- a/x86/Makefile.common
+++ b/x86/Makefile.common
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/realmode.$(exe) \
 realmode_bits := $(if $(call cc-option,-m16,""),16,32)
 endif
 
+tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/hpet_read_test.$(exe)
+
 test_cases: $(tests-common) $(tests)
 
 $(TEST_DIR)/%.o: CFLAGS += -std=gnu99 -ffreestanding -I $(SRCDIR)/lib -I $(SRCDIR)/lib/x86 -I lib
diff --git a/x86/hpet_read_test.c b/x86/hpet_read_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a44cdac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x86/hpet_read_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+#include "libcflat.h"
+#include "smp.h"
+#include "apic.h"
+#include "asm/barrier.h"
+#include "x86/atomic.h"
+#include "vmalloc.h"
+#include "alloc.h"
+
+#define HPET_ADDR         0xFED00000L
+#define HPET_COUNTER_ADDR ((uint8_t *)HPET_ADDR + 0xF0UL)
+#define HPET_CONFIG_ADDR  ((uint8_t *)HPET_ADDR + 0x10UL)
+#define HPET_ENABLE_BIT   0x01UL
+#define HPET_CLK_PERIOD   10
+
+#define TEST_CYCLES 100000
+
+static atomic_t fail;
+static uint64_t latency[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
+
+static void hpet_reader(void *data)
+{
+	long i;
+	uint64_t old_counter = 0, new_counter;
+	long id = (long)data;
+
+	latency[id] = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
+	for (i = 0; i < TEST_CYCLES; ++i) {
+		new_counter = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
+		if (new_counter < old_counter)
+			atomic_inc(&fail);
+		old_counter = new_counter;
+	}
+	/* claculate job latency in ns */
+	latency[id] = (*(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR - latency[id])
+		* HPET_CLK_PERIOD / TEST_CYCLES;
+}
+
+static void hpet_writer(void *data)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < TEST_CYCLES; ++i)
+		if (i % 2)
+			*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR |= HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
+		else
+			*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR &= ~HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+	unsigned long cpu, time_ns, lat = 0;
+	uint64_t start, end;
+	int ncpus = cpu_count();
+
+	do {
+		printf("* starting concurrent read bench on %d cpus\n", ncpus);
+		*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR |= HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
+		start = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
+
+		for (cpu = cpu_count() - 1; cpu > 0; --cpu)
+			on_cpu_async(cpu, hpet_reader, (void *)cpu);
+		while (cpus_active() > 1)
+			pause();
+
+		end = (*(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR);
+		time_ns = (end - start) * HPET_CLK_PERIOD;
+
+		for (cpu = 1; cpu < ncpus; cpu++)
+			if (latency[cpu])
+				lat += latency[cpu];
+			else
+				report_fail("cpu %lu reported invalid latency (0)\n", cpu);
+		lat = lat / ncpus;
+
+		report(time_ns && !atomic_read(&fail),
+			"read test took %lu ms, avg read: %lu ns\n", time_ns/1000000,  lat);
+	} while (0);
+
+	do {
+		printf("* starting enable/disable with concurrent readers torture\n");
+		if (ncpus > 2) {
+			for (cpu = 2; cpu < ncpus; cpu++)
+				on_cpu_async(cpu, hpet_reader, (void *)TEST_CYCLES);
+
+			on_cpu(1, hpet_writer, (void *)TEST_CYCLES);
+			report(!atomic_read(&fail), "torture test, fails: %u\n",
+				atomic_read(&fail));
+		} else
+			printf("SKIP: torture test: '-smp X' should be greater than 2\n");
+	} while (0);
+
+	return report_summary();
+}
-- 
2.47.1

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 1/5] x86: resize id_map[] elements to u32

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:25AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> currently item size is u8, which would truncate APIC IDs that are
> greater than 255.
> Make it u32 so that it  cna hold x2apic IDs as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 2/5] x86: fix APs with APIC ID more that 255 not showing in id_map

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:26AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> save_id() is called too early and uses xapic ops, which is fine
> up to 2566 cpus.
> However with that any CPU with APIC ID more than 255 will set
> wrong bit in online_cpus (since xapic ops only handle 8bit IDs,
> thus losing all higher bit x2apic might have).
> As result CPUs with id higher than 255 are not registered
> (they will trumple over elements in range 0-255 instead).
> 
> To fix it move save_id() after the point where APs have
> switched to x2apic ops, to get non-truncated ID.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 3/5] x86: move USERBASE to 32Mb in smap/pku/pks tests

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:27AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> If number of CPUs is increased up to 2048, it will push
> available pages above 16Mb range and make smap/pku/pks
> tests fail with 'Could not reserve memory' error.
> 
> Move pages used by tests to 32Mb to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

> ---
>  x86/pks.c  | 2 +-
>  x86/pku.c  | 2 +-
>  x86/smap.c | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/x86/pks.c b/x86/pks.c
> index f4d6ac83..9b9519ba 100644
> --- a/x86/pks.c
> +++ b/x86/pks.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  #include "x86/msr.h"
>  
>  #define PTE_PKEY_BIT     59
> -#define SUPER_BASE        (1 << 23)
> +#define SUPER_BASE        (2 << 24)

Nitpick: maybe 1<<25 would be easier to read.

Below are some random thoughts when reading these tests..

I'm not sure whether I understand them correctly here: all of them so far
depend on the "test" var present in the .bss section, and they all assumed
that the var's physical address (likely together with the whole .bss) will
be under SUPER_BASE after loaded in the VM.

Based on that, there's yet another restriction versus the need to reserve
(SUPER_BASE, SUPER_BASE*2), because the tests want to map the same (0,
SUPER_BASE) memory twice in that virtual address range, so here the tests
do not really need the phys pages in the back but kind of a way to reserve
virtual addresses..

Instead of these tricks, I wonder whether we can do alloc_page() once, then
put the test var on the page allocated.  Then we can build the required
PKU/PKS/SMAP special pgtables on top, mapping to the page allocated.  It
should make sure system changes (like growing num_cpus) never affect it
anymore.

That (even if feasible.. or maybe I missed something) can definitely
involve more changes, so not something to ask for on adding the hpet test /
x2apic support.  Just some pure thoughts when reading it..

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 4/5] x86: bump number of max cpus to 1024

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:28AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> this should allow run tests with more thatn 256 cpus
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 5/5] x86: add HPET counter read micro benchmark and enable/disable torture tests

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:29AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> test is to be used for benchmarking/validating HPET main counter reading
> 
> how to run:
>    QEMU=/foo/qemu-system-x86_64 x86/run x86/hpet_read_test.flat -smp X
> where X is desired number of logical CPUs to test with
> 
> it will 1st execute concurrent read benchmark
> and after that it will run torture test enabling/disabling HPET counter,
> while running readers in parallel. Goal is to verify counter that always
> goes up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
> ---
> v4:
>    * use global for test cycles and siplify code a bit
>    * use cpu number instead of APCI ID as index into latency array
>    * report failure if a cpu measured 0 latency
>    * replace on_cpus() with on_cpu_async() to avoid BSP
>      interrupting itself
>    * drop volatile
> 
> v3:
>    * measure lat inside threads so that, threads startup time wouldn't
>      throw off results
>    * fix BSP iterrupting itself by running read test and stalling
>      other cpus as result. (fix it by exiting read test earlier if
>      it's running on BSP)
> v2:
>    * fix broken timer going backwards check
>    * report # of fails
>    * warn if number of vcpus is not sufficient for torture test and skip
>      it
>    * style fixups
> ---
>  x86/Makefile.common  |  2 +
>  x86/hpet_read_test.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 x86/hpet_read_test.c
> 
> diff --git a/x86/Makefile.common b/x86/Makefile.common
> index 5663a65d..ef0e09a6 100644
> --- a/x86/Makefile.common
> +++ b/x86/Makefile.common
> @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/realmode.$(exe) \
>  realmode_bits := $(if $(call cc-option,-m16,""),16,32)
>  endif
>  
> +tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/hpet_read_test.$(exe)
> +
>  test_cases: $(tests-common) $(tests)
>  
>  $(TEST_DIR)/%.o: CFLAGS += -std=gnu99 -ffreestanding -I $(SRCDIR)/lib -I $(SRCDIR)/lib/x86 -I lib
> diff --git a/x86/hpet_read_test.c b/x86/hpet_read_test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..a44cdac2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/x86/hpet_read_test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
> +#include "libcflat.h"
> +#include "smp.h"
> +#include "apic.h"
> +#include "asm/barrier.h"
> +#include "x86/atomic.h"
> +#include "vmalloc.h"
> +#include "alloc.h"
> +
> +#define HPET_ADDR         0xFED00000L
> +#define HPET_COUNTER_ADDR ((uint8_t *)HPET_ADDR + 0xF0UL)
> +#define HPET_CONFIG_ADDR  ((uint8_t *)HPET_ADDR + 0x10UL)
> +#define HPET_ENABLE_BIT   0x01UL
> +#define HPET_CLK_PERIOD   10
> +
> +#define TEST_CYCLES 100000
> +
> +static atomic_t fail;
> +static uint64_t latency[MAX_TEST_CPUS];
> +
> +static void hpet_reader(void *data)
> +{
> +	long i;
> +	uint64_t old_counter = 0, new_counter;
> +	long id = (long)data;
> +
> +	latency[id] = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
> +	for (i = 0; i < TEST_CYCLES; ++i) {
> +		new_counter = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
> +		if (new_counter < old_counter)
> +			atomic_inc(&fail);
> +		old_counter = new_counter;
> +	}
> +	/* claculate job latency in ns */
> +	latency[id] = (*(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR - latency[id])
> +		* HPET_CLK_PERIOD / TEST_CYCLES;
> +}
> +
> +static void hpet_writer(void *data)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < TEST_CYCLES; ++i)
> +		if (i % 2)
> +			*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR |= HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
> +		else
> +			*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR &= ~HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
> +}
> +
> +int main(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long cpu, time_ns, lat = 0;
> +	uint64_t start, end;
> +	int ncpus = cpu_count();
> +
> +	do {
> +		printf("* starting concurrent read bench on %d cpus\n", ncpus);
> +		*(uint64_t *)HPET_CONFIG_ADDR |= HPET_ENABLE_BIT;
> +		start = *(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR;
> +
> +		for (cpu = cpu_count() - 1; cpu > 0; --cpu)
> +			on_cpu_async(cpu, hpet_reader, (void *)cpu);
> +		while (cpus_active() > 1)
> +			pause();
> +
> +		end = (*(uint64_t *)HPET_COUNTER_ADDR);
> +		time_ns = (end - start) * HPET_CLK_PERIOD;
> +
> +		for (cpu = 1; cpu < ncpus; cpu++)
> +			if (latency[cpu])
> +				lat += latency[cpu];
> +			else
> +				report_fail("cpu %lu reported invalid latency (0)\n", cpu);
> +		lat = lat / ncpus;
> +
> +		report(time_ns && !atomic_read(&fail),
> +			"read test took %lu ms, avg read: %lu ns\n", time_ns/1000000,  lat);
> +	} while (0);
> +
> +	do {
> +		printf("* starting enable/disable with concurrent readers torture\n");
> +		if (ncpus > 2) {
> +			for (cpu = 2; cpu < ncpus; cpu++)
> +				on_cpu_async(cpu, hpet_reader, (void *)TEST_CYCLES);
> +
> +			on_cpu(1, hpet_writer, (void *)TEST_CYCLES);
> +			report(!atomic_read(&fail), "torture test, fails: %u\n",
> +				atomic_read(&fail));
> +		} else
> +			printf("SKIP: torture test: '-smp X' should be greater than 2\n");
> +	} while (0);

Nitpick: IMHO the "do... while" indentation isn't strictly needed.  Maybe
it implies the blobs can be put separately into two functions, e.g. as
test_hpet_concurrent_ro() / test_hpet_concurrent_rw().

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

> +
> +	return report_summary();
> +}
> -- 
> 2.47.1
> 

-- 
Peter Xu

Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 3/5] x86: move USERBASE to 32Mb in smap/pku/pks tests

[Igor Mammedov]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:56:18 -0400
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:54:27AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > If number of CPUs is increased up to 2048, it will push
> > available pages above 16Mb range and make smap/pku/pks
> > tests fail with 'Could not reserve memory' error.
> > 
> > Move pages used by tests to 32Mb to fix it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> 
> > ---
> >  x86/pks.c  | 2 +-
> >  x86/pku.c  | 2 +-
> >  x86/smap.c | 2 +-
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/x86/pks.c b/x86/pks.c
> > index f4d6ac83..9b9519ba 100644
> > --- a/x86/pks.c
> > +++ b/x86/pks.c
> > @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> >  #include "x86/msr.h"
> >  
> >  #define PTE_PKEY_BIT     59
> > -#define SUPER_BASE        (1 << 23)
> > +#define SUPER_BASE        (2 << 24)  
> 
> Nitpick: maybe 1<<25 would be easier to read.

I can try with, if I have to respin.

 
> Below are some random thoughts when reading these tests..
> 
> I'm not sure whether I understand them correctly here: all of them so far
> depend on the "test" var present in the .bss section, and they all assumed
> that the var's physical address (likely together with the whole .bss) will
> be under SUPER_BASE after loaded in the VM.
> 
> Based on that, there's yet another restriction versus the need to reserve
> (SUPER_BASE, SUPER_BASE*2), because the tests want to map the same (0,
> SUPER_BASE) memory twice in that virtual address range, so here the tests
> do not really need the phys pages in the back but kind of a way to reserve
> virtual addresses..
> 
> Instead of these tricks, I wonder whether we can do alloc_page() once, then
> put the test var on the page allocated.  Then we can build the required
> PKU/PKS/SMAP special pgtables on top, mapping to the page allocated.  It
> should make sure system changes (like growing num_cpus) never affect it
> anymore.
> 
> That (even if feasible.. or maybe I missed something) can definitely
> involve more changes, so not something to ask for on adding the hpet test /
> x2apic support.  Just some pure thoughts when reading it..

I had the same thoughts but I'm not confident enough to rewrite
those tests. Hence a knee-jerk reaction of just fixing up base
to unbreak affected test.

> 
> Thanks,
>