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From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
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	Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@fujitsu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/20] KVM: selftests: Add APIs to override memory region types with custom memslots
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:48:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5x0d1hj1.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902164123.2546762-13-seanjc@google.com>

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes:

> Add and use APIs to override memory region types instead of open coding the
> logic in tests, partly to dedup test code, but mostly to add some amount of
> protection against conflicting overrides.  This will allow converting more
> tests to override memory regions without taking on too much risk of bugs in
> the long term, e.g. due to silently overriding a region multiple times.
>
> Deliberately "unroll" the loops in __vm_create() and the CMMA test's
> create_main_memslot() to avoid filling all memslots in anticipation of
> adding an "extra" memslot that is for test use and *only* test use, i.e.
> shouldn't be configured by core library code.
>
> Converting tests to overriding memory regions will allow taking the region
> type instead of the raw memslot in the physical page allocator APIs.
>

May I suggest few changes in the naming of these APIs:

static inline void vm_override_mem_region(struct kvm_vm *vm,
					      enum kvm_mem_region_type type,
					      u32 slot)
{
	TEST_ASSERT(vm->memslots[type] == KVM_INVALID_MEMSLOT,
		    "Memory region type '%u' was already overridden with slot=%u",
		    type, vm->memslots[type]);

	vm->memslots[type] = slot;
}

static inline void vm_override_add_mem_region_flags(struct kvm_vm *vm,
					    enum kvm_mem_region_type type,
					    enum vm_mem_backing_src_type src_type,
					    gpa_t gpa, u32 slot, u64 npages,
					    u32 flags)
{
	vm_override_mem_region(vm, type, slot);
	vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, src_type, gpa, slot, npages, flags);
}

static inline void vm_override_add_mem_region(struct kvm_vm *vm,
					  enum kvm_mem_region_type type,
					  enum vm_mem_backing_src_type src_type,
					  gpa_t gpa, u32 slot, u64 npages)
{
	vm_override_add_mem_region_flags(vm, type, src_type, gpa, slot, npages, 0);
}

Those "_add_" and "_flags" in the function names easily gives away
the difference in the APIs, rather than differentiating via "__".

However, logically the change looks good - so feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-10 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02 16:41 [PATCH v2 00/20] KVM: selftests: PPC pre-enabling Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] KVM: selftests: Use MEM_REGION_PT memslot instead of '0' for s390 regions/segments Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:50   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-10 10:24   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] KVM: selftests: Use the common minimum GPA for page tables on LoongArch Sean Christopherson
2026-09-03  1:01   ` Bibo Mao
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] KVM: selftests: Use vm_alloc_page_table() to allocate LoongArch page tables Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] KVM: selftests: Rename "num" param to "nr_pages" for physical page allocators Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:50   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-04 13:30   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] KVM: selftests: Use goto instead of do-while to retry finding unused physical pages Sean Christopherson
2026-09-04 11:40   ` Gautam Menghani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] KVM: selftests: Extend page allocator to support naturally aligned allocations Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:49   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-10  5:27   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] KVM: selftests: Make the single-page allocator APIs static inline Sean Christopherson
2026-09-10  6:36   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] KVM: selftests: Use the innermost page allocator API in the memslot perf test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-10 10:55   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-10 11:00   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] KVM: selftests: Use the innermost page allocator API in s390's IRQ routing test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-07 11:21   ` Janosch Frank
2026-09-10 10:25   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] KVM: selftests: Add a wrapper API to allocate multiple page table pages Sean Christopherson
2026-09-04 11:41   ` Gautam Menghani
2026-09-07  8:23   ` Anup Patel
2026-09-10 10:23   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-09-10 11:04   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] KVM: selftests: Initialize vm->memslots[] with invalid memslots during creation Sean Christopherson
2026-09-04 11:42   ` Gautam Menghani
2026-09-10 11:09   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] KVM: selftests: Add APIs to override memory region types with custom memslots Sean Christopherson
2026-09-10 10:27   ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-09-10 11:18   ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
2026-09-10 16:24     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] KVM: selftests: Add TEST_EXTRA memory region type for "special" memslots Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:53   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] KVM: selftests: Use TEST_EXTRA region in arm64's vGIC LPI stress test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] KVM: selftests: Use TEST_EXTRA region in x86's smaller MAXPHYADDR test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] KVM: selftests: Use TEST_EXTRA region in set memory region test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] KVM: selftests: Take the memory region type, not memslot, in page allocators Sean Christopherson
2026-09-10 11:40   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] KVM: selftests: Use TEST_ASSERT(), not assert(), in vm_get_mem_region() Sean Christopherson
2026-09-10 11:27   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] KVM: selftests: Automatically pick min_gpa for allocations based on region type Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] KVM: selftests: Add arch hook to force page tables to be naturally aligned Sean Christopherson
2026-09-02 16:59   ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-10 11:57   ` Ritesh Harjani
2026-09-02 23:06 ` [PATCH v2 00/20] KVM: selftests: PPC pre-enabling Itaru Kitayama

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