[PATCH v3 00/12] KVM: selftests: Add more syscall wrappers, fix hardware_disable_test
Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:56:00 -0700
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Third time's a charm. Sorry for the spam. Buried in the middle of this is a fix for the hardware_disable_test where it can end up with a runtime of multiple minutes when running a preemptible kernels on a large NUMA system. Turns out my analysis/guess in v1 was wrong; the problem isn't direct CPU contention, it's that letting the workers do any amount of "real" work on any CPUs leads to pthread_create() slowdowns from the perspective of the caller. The vast, vast majority of the changes are adding kvm_xxx() syscall wrappers so that tests don't need to manually assert that a syscall succeeds (the hardware disable test had some ugly equivalents). v3: - Key off _GNU_SOURCE, not __USE_GNU. [Sashiko] - Clear consumed CPUs from the allowed set. [Sashiko] - Assert that settings affinity attributes succeeds. [Sasiko] v2: - https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260731170619.2620845-1-seanjc%40google.com - pause() the child after creating workers so as not to busy loop, and to maintain equivalent functionality. [Sashiko] - Don't bother pinning the parent of immediate child, and instead focus on affining workers to their CPUs asap. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected] Sean Christopherson (12): KVM: selftests: Add a KVM syscall wrapper for sched_setaffinity() KVM: selftests: Set threads CPU affinity before doing work in hardware disable test KVM: selftests: Pre-set threads affinity in hardware disable test when possible KVM: selftests: Return the target CPU from pin_task_to_random_cpu() KVM: selftests: Extract picking of random CPU from cpu_set_t to separate API KVM: selftests: Affine threads to random CPUs in hardware disable test KVM: selftests: Drop unreachable, dead code from hardware disable test KVM: selftests: Add KVM syscall wrapper for pthread_create() KVM: selftests: Add KVM syscall wrappers for pthread_{cancel,join}() KVM: selftests: Add helper APIs to cancel+join pthreads KVM: selftests: Add KVM syscall wrappers for pthread_{g,s}etaffinity_np() KVM: selftests: Clean up global constants in hardware disable test tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arch_timer.c | 18 +-- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/arm64/vgic_irq.c | 14 +-- .../selftests/kvm/arm64/vgic_lpi_stress.c | 8 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c | 109 ++++++++---------- .../selftests/kvm/include/kvm_syscalls.h | 48 ++++++++ .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 11 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/irq_test.c | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/irqfd_test.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/kvm_page_table_test.c | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 10 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/lib/userfaultfd_util.c | 7 +- .../testing/selftests/kvm/memslot_perf_test.c | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/mmu_stress_test.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/pre_fault_memory_test.c | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/rseq_test.c | 12 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/s390/memop.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/set_memory_region_test.c | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/hyperv_ipi.c | 32 +---- .../selftests/kvm/x86/hyperv_tlb_flush.c | 30 +---- .../kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c | 4 +- .../kvm/x86/private_mem_kvm_exits_test.c | 7 +- .../selftests/kvm/x86/recalc_apic_map_test.c | 5 +- .../selftests/kvm/x86/sev_migrate_tests.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/x86/sync_regs_test.c | 5 +- .../selftests/kvm/x86/tsc_scaling_sync.c | 4 +- .../selftests/kvm/x86/xapic_ipi_test.c | 31 +---- .../selftests/kvm/x86/xen_shinfo_test.c | 10 +- 30 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 232 deletions(-) base-commit: 3c7d7f908d574277a845423ec32250a8d8df44c8 -- 2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog