[PATCH 3/9] KVM: selftests: Affine child tasks to other pCPUs in hardware disable test

From: Sean Christopherson

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 15:41:21 EST


When possible, affine child tasks to a different pCPU than the parent task
in the hardware disable test. On preemptible kernels, running 4 + 4*16
child tasks on the same 4 pCPUs as the parent can result in runtimes of
several minutes due to the children making it difficult for the parent to
make forward progress.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c | 28 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c
index 3147f5c97e94..1bcbd13e9994 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/hardware_disable_test.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#define DELAY_US_MAX 2000

sem_t *sem;
+static cpu_set_t child_cpu_set;

static void guest_code(void)
{
@@ -84,16 +85,11 @@ static void run_test(u32 run)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
struct kvm_vm *vm;
- cpu_set_t cpu_set;
pthread_t threads[VCPU_NUM];
pthread_t throw_away;
void *b;
u32 i, j;

- CPU_ZERO(&cpu_set);
- for (i = 0; i < VCPU_NUM; i++)
- CPU_SET(i, &cpu_set);
-
vm = vm_create(VCPU_NUM);

pr_debug("%s: [%d] start vcpus\n", __func__, run);
@@ -101,12 +97,12 @@ static void run_test(u32 run)
vcpu = vm_vcpu_add(vm, i, guest_code);

check_create_thread(&threads[i], NULL, run_vcpu, vcpu);
- check_set_affinity(threads[i], &cpu_set);
+ check_set_affinity(threads[i], &child_cpu_set);

for (j = 0; j < SLEEPING_THREAD_NUM; ++j) {
check_create_thread(&throw_away, NULL, sleeping_thread,
(void *)NULL);
- check_set_affinity(throw_away, &cpu_set);
+ check_set_affinity(throw_away, &child_cpu_set);
}
}
pr_debug("%s: [%d] all threads launched\n", __func__, run);
@@ -147,12 +143,30 @@ void wait_for_child_setup(pid_t pid)
}
}

+static void setup_child_cpu_set(void)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ kvm_sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(child_cpu_set), &child_cpu_set);
+
+ if (CPU_COUNT(&child_cpu_set) < 2)
+ return;
+
+ cpu = pin_task_to_random_cpu(pthread_self(), &child_cpu_set);
+ CPU_CLR(cpu, &child_cpu_set);
+
+ while (CPU_COUNT(&child_cpu_set) > VCPU_NUM)
+ CPU_CLR(kvm_pick_random_cpu(&child_cpu_set), &child_cpu_set);
+}
+
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
u32 i;
int s, r;
pid_t pid;

+ setup_child_cpu_set();
+
sem = sem_open("vm_sem", O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0644, 0);
sem_unlink("vm_sem");

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