[PATCH 16/20] KVM: selftests: Ensure guest writes min number of pages in dirty_log_test

Sean Christopherson
2024-12-14T01:07:51Z

Ensure the vCPU fully completes at least one write in each dirty_log_test
iteration, as failure to dirty any pages complicates verification and
forces the test to be overly conservative about possible values. E.g.
verification needs to allow the last dirty page from a previous iteration
to have *any* value, because the vCPU could get stuck for multiple
iterations, which is unlikely but can happen in heavily overloaded and/or
nested virtualization setups.

Somewhat arbitrarily set the minimum to 0x100/256; high enough to be
interesting, but not so high as to lead to pointlessly long runtimes.

Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
index 500257b712e3..8eb51597f762 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
/* Interval for each host loop (ms) */
#define TEST_HOST_LOOP_INTERVAL 10UL

+/*
+ * Ensure the vCPU is able to perform a reasonable number of writes in each
+ * iteration to provide a lower bound on coverage.
+ */
+#define TEST_MIN_WRITES_PER_ITERATION 0x100
+
/* Dirty bitmaps are always little endian, so we need to swap on big endian */
#if defined(__s390x__)
# define BITOP_LE_SWIZZLE ((BITS_PER_LONG-1) & ~0x7)
@@ -72,6 +78,7 @@ static uint64_t host_page_size;
static uint64_t guest_page_size;
static uint64_t guest_num_pages;
static uint64_t iteration;
+static uint64_t nr_writes;
static bool vcpu_stop;

/*
@@ -107,6 +114,7 @@ static void guest_code(void)
for (i = 0; i < guest_num_pages; i++) {
addr = guest_test_virt_mem + i * guest_page_size;
vcpu_arch_put_guest(*(uint64_t *)addr, READ_ONCE(iteration));
+ nr_writes++;
}
#endif

@@ -118,6 +126,7 @@ static void guest_code(void)
addr = align_down(addr, host_page_size);

vcpu_arch_put_guest(*(uint64_t *)addr, READ_ONCE(iteration));
+ nr_writes++;
}

GUEST_SYNC(1);
@@ -665,6 +674,8 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)
host_dirty_count = 0;
host_clear_count = 0;
WRITE_ONCE(dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full, false);
+ WRITE_ONCE(nr_writes, 0);
+ sync_global_to_guest(vm, nr_writes);

/*
* Ensure the previous iteration didn't leave a dangling semaphore, i.e.
@@ -683,10 +694,22 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)

dirty_ring_prev_iteration_last_page = dirty_ring_last_page;

- /* Give the vcpu thread some time to dirty some pages */
- for (i = 0; i < p->interval; i++) {
+ /*
+ * Let the vCPU run beyond the configured interval until it has
+ * performed the minimum number of writes. This verifies the
+ * guest is making forward progress, e.g. isn't stuck because
+ * of a KVM bug, and puts a firm floor on test coverage.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < p->interval || nr_writes < TEST_MIN_WRITES_PER_ITERATION; i++) {
+ /*
+ * Sleep in 1ms chunks to keep the interval math simple
+ * and so that the test doesn't run too far beyond the
+ * specified interval.
+ */
usleep(1000);

+ sync_global_from_guest(vm, nr_writes);
+
/*
* Reap dirty pages while the guest is running so that
* dirty ring full events are resolved, i.e. so that a
@@ -760,6 +783,9 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg)
WRITE_ONCE(host_quit, true);
sync_global_to_guest(vm, iteration);

+ WRITE_ONCE(nr_writes, 0);
+ sync_global_to_guest(vm, nr_writes);
+
WRITE_ONCE(dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full, false);

sem_post(&sem_vcpu_cont);
--
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