Re: [RFC PATCH v5 00/29] TDX KVM selftests

["Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 16:34 -0500, Sagi Shahar wrote:
> > We don't currently have plans to post a whole ~130 patch series. Instead we
> > plan
> > to post subsections out of the series as they slowly move into a maintainer
> > branch.
> 
> So this means that we won't be able to post an updated version of the
> selftests for a while unless we lock it to the V19 patchset which is
> based on v6.8-rc5
> Do you have an estimate on when the TDX patches get to the point where
> they could support the basic lifecycle selftest?

I don't understand. The MMU prep series postings come with a full branch in
github that can boot a TD. What is different if we post the other commits as
patches vs just linking to them in github? The selftests won't be upstreamed
ahead of the base TDX support anyway, right?

> > 
> > We are trying to use the selftests as part of the development of the base
> > TDX
> > base series. So we need to be able to run them on development branches to
> > catch
> > regressions and such. For this purpose, we wouldn't need updates to be
> > posted to
> > the mailing list. It probably needs either some sort of co-development, or
> > otherwise we will need to maintain an internal fork of the selftests.
> > 
> > We also need to add some specific tests that can cover gaps in our current
> > testing. Probably we could contribute those back to the series.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> I will take a look at rebasing the selftests on top of the Intel
> development branch and I can post it on our github branch. We can talk
> about co-development offline. We already have some code that was
> suggested by Isaku as part of our tests.

That would be great, thanks.