[PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: selftests: memstress: Add option to enable dirty-ring on VM creation

From: Leonardo Bras

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 09:05:52 EST


Dirty-ring should be enabled after the VM is created, but before the
creation of any cpu. To to so, add an option on memstress_create_vm() that
takes dirty-ring size, and enables it at the correct moment.

This required a new function memstress_vm_create_with_vcpus() to be
created based on the previously used __vm_create_with_vcpus();

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@xxxxxxx>
---
.../testing/selftests/kvm/include/memstress.h | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c | 27 +++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/memstress.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/memstress.h
index cea2062e1dcb..465edf0da8f3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/memstress.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/memstress.h
@@ -53,20 +53,21 @@ struct memstress_args {
struct memstress_vcpu_args vcpu_args[KVM_MAX_VCPUS];
};

struct memstress_params {
enum vm_guest_mode mode;
int nr_vcpus;
u64 vcpu_memory_bytes;
int slots;
enum vm_mem_backing_src_type backing_src;
bool partition_vcpu_memory_access;
+ u32 dirty_ring_size;
};

extern struct memstress_args memstress_args;

struct kvm_vm *memstress_create_vm(struct memstress_params *params);
void memstress_destroy_vm(struct kvm_vm *vm);

void memstress_set_write_percent(struct kvm_vm *vm, u32 write_percent);
void memstress_set_random_access(struct kvm_vm *vm, bool random_access);

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c
index 880657df65e9..b1f13499e85f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/memstress.c
@@ -114,20 +114,41 @@ void memstress_setup_vcpus(struct kvm_vm *vm, int nr_vcpus,
}

vcpu_args_set(vcpus[i], 1, i);

pr_debug("Added VCPU %d with test mem gpa [%lx, %lx)\n",
i, vcpu_args->gpa, vcpu_args->gpa +
(vcpu_args->pages * args->guest_page_size));
}
}

+static struct kvm_vm *memstress_vm_create_with_vcpus(struct memstress_params *params,
+ u64 extra_mem_pages)
+{
+ struct kvm_vm *vm;
+ int i;
+
+ TEST_ASSERT(params->nr_vcpus > 0, "Invalid number of vCPUs (%d)",
+ params->nr_vcpus);
+
+ vm = __vm_create(VM_SHAPE(params->mode), params->nr_vcpus, extra_mem_pages);
+
+ if (params->dirty_ring_size)
+ vm_enable_dirty_ring(vm, params->dirty_ring_size);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < params->nr_vcpus; ++i)
+ vcpus[i] = vm_vcpu_add(vm, i, memstress_guest_code);
+
+ kvm_arch_vm_finalize_vcpus(vm);
+ return vm;
+}
+
struct kvm_vm *memstress_create_vm(struct memstress_params *params)
{
struct memstress_args *args = &memstress_args;
struct kvm_vm *vm;
u64 guest_num_pages, slot0_pages = 0;
u64 backing_src_pagesz = get_backing_src_pagesz(params->backing_src);
u64 region_end_gfn;
int i;

pr_info("Testing guest mode: %s\n", vm_guest_mode_string(params->mode));
@@ -158,25 +179,21 @@ struct kvm_vm *memstress_create_vm(struct memstress_params *params)
* in-memory data structures.
*/
if (args->nested)
slot0_pages += memstress_nested_pages(params->nr_vcpus);

/*
* Pass guest_num_pages to populate the page tables for test memory.
* The memory is also added to memslot 0, but that's a benign side
* effect as KVM allows aliasing HVAs in meslots.
*/
- vm = __vm_create_with_vcpus(VM_SHAPE(params->mode),
- params->nr_vcpus,
- slot0_pages + guest_num_pages,
- memstress_guest_code, vcpus);
-
+ vm = memstress_vm_create_with_vcpus(params, slot0_pages + guest_num_pages);
args->vm = vm;

/* Put the test region at the top guest physical memory. */
region_end_gfn = vm->max_gfn + 1;

#ifdef __x86_64__
/*
* When running vCPUs in L2, restrict the test region to 48 bits to
* avoid needing 5-level page tables to identity map L2.
*/
--
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