Re: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: selftests: Create a new guest_memfd for each testcase

[Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>]

Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes:

> Refactor the guest_memfd selftest to improve test isolation by creating a
> a new guest_memfd for each testcase.  Currently, the test reuses a single
> guest_memfd instance for all testcases, and thus creates dependencies
> between tests, e.g. not truncating folios from the guest_memfd instance
> at the end of a test could lead to unexpected results (see the PUNCH_HOLE
> purging that needs to done by in-flight the NUMA testcases[1]).
>

Lisa and I ran into this recently while working on testing
memory_failure() handling for guest_memfd too.

> Invoke each test via a macro wrapper to create and close a guest_memfd
> to cut down on the boilerplate copy+paste needed to create a test.
>

I introduced a wrapper function but a macro is a better idea since it
also parametrizes the test name.

Reviewed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250827175247.83322-10-shivankg@amd.com
> Reported-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c  | 31 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> index 8251d019206a..60c6dec63490 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>  
>  static size_t page_size;
>  
> -static void test_file_read_write(int fd)
> +static void test_file_read_write(int fd, size_t total_size)
>  {
>  	char buf[64];
>  
> @@ -259,14 +259,18 @@ static void test_guest_memfd_flags(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint64_t valid_flags)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +#define gmem_test(__test, __vm, __flags)				\
> +do {									\
> +	int fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(__vm, page_size * 4, __flags);	\
> +									\
> +	test_##__test(fd, page_size * 4);				\
> +	close(fd);							\
> +} while (0)
> +
> 
> [...snip...]
>