[PATCH] KVM: selftests: Use KVM's task pinning APIs in steal_time
From: Hisam Mehboob
Date: Mon Jul 06 2026 - 13:09:16 EST
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Use pin_self_to_cpu() and pin_task_to_cpu() to pin the vCPU thread and
the stealer thread to pCPU0 in the steal_time test. Eliminating the usage
of pthread_attr_setaffinity_np() in particular allows building the test
against non-glibc C libraries.
Reported-by: Aqib Faruqui <aqibaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250829142556.72577-4-aqibaf@xxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aLIroyJSWQ26wnY4@xxxxxxxxxx/
[hisamshar@xxxxxxxxx: resend, fix changelog typos; original series was never reposted]
Signed-off-by: Hisam Mehboob <hisamshar@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c
index 76fcdd1fd3cb..19a97d6a3607 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/steal_time.c
@@ -508,9 +508,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpus[NR_VCPUS];
struct kvm_vm *vm;
- pthread_attr_t attr;
pthread_t thread;
- cpu_set_t cpuset;
unsigned int gpages;
long stolen_time;
long run_delay;
@@ -520,11 +518,7 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
verbose = ac > 1 && (!strncmp(av[1], "-v", 3) || !strncmp(av[1], "--verbose", 10));
/* Set CPU affinity so we can force preemption of the VCPU */
- CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
- CPU_SET(0, &cpuset);
- pthread_attr_init(&attr);
- pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset);
- pthread_setaffinity_np(pthread_self(), sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset);
+ pin_self_to_cpu(0);
/* Create a VM and an identity mapped memslot for the steal time structure */
vm = vm_create_with_vcpus(NR_VCPUS, guest_code, vcpus);
@@ -558,7 +552,9 @@ int main(int ac, char **av)
/* Steal time from the VCPU. The steal time thread has the same CPU affinity as the VCPUs. */
run_delay = get_run_delay();
- pthread_create(&thread, &attr, do_steal_time, NULL);
+ pthread_create(&thread, NULL, do_steal_time, NULL);
+ pin_task_to_cpu(thread, 0);
+
do
sched_yield();
while (get_run_delay() - run_delay < MIN_RUN_DELAY_NS);
--
2.51.0