Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] KVM: selftests / xen: don't explicitly set the vcpu_info address

From: Paul Durrant
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 12:03:45 EST


On 18/09/2023 14:21, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 11:21 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>

If the vCPU id is set and the shared_info is mapped using HVA then we can
infer that KVM has the ability to use a default vcpu_info mapping. Hence
we can stop setting the address of the vcpu_info structure.

Again that means we're not *testing* it any more when the test is run
on newer kernels. Can we perhaps set it explicitly, after *half* the
tests are done? Maybe to a *different* address than the default which
is derived from the Xen vcpu_id? And check that the memcpy works right
when we do?


Ok. The VMM is currently responsible for that memcpy. Are you suggesting we push that into KVM too?

Paul