Re: kvm-unit-tests : Kconfigs and extra kernel args for full coverage

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On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 23:06, Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2/24/20 4:55 PM, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 20:29, Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:47:44PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On 2/24/20 1:38 PM, Andrew Jones wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:21:23PM +0000, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Naresh,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 2/24/20 12:53 PM, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> >>>>>> [..]
> >>>>> I am going to comment on the arm64 tests. As far as I am aware, you don't need any
> >>>>> kernel configs to run the tests.
> > Thanks for the confirmation on Kconfig part for arm64.
> > The next question is, How to enable and run nested virtual testing ?
>
> There's not support in KVM to run nested guests (yet [1]) and no support in
> kvm-unit-tests to run at EL2 (yet [2]) and no hardware that has supported for
> nested virtualization (yet).

ack.

>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg784744.html
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg203527.html
> >
> >>>>> From looking at the java log [1], I can point out a few things:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - The gicv3 tests are failing because Juno has a gicv2 and the kernel refuses to
> >>>>> create a virtual gicv3. It's normal.
> > Got it.
> > Because of heterogeneous big.LITTLE CPU architecture of Juno device caused
> > test hang and "taskset -c 0 ./run_tests.sh -a -v -t " solved this problem.
>
> KVM doesn't normally care about big.little configurations, and kvm-unit-tests
> definitely doesn't do anything that is specific to a certain microarchitecture. I
> would say something else is wrong here. I'll try and reproduce it on my Juno when
> I get the time, but that might not happen until next week. Can you trigger this
> behaviour every run?

I will schedule multiple runs and get an answer by tomorrow.

>
> >
> >>>> Yup
> > timers test is intermittent failure due to timeout on the CPU 0 which
> > is configured
> > as LITTLE cpu cortext a53. If i change test to run on big CPU then it
> > always PASS.
> > "taskset -c $BIG_CPU_ID ./run_tests.sh -a -v -t"
>
> This might just be an unfortunate mix of events and kernel scheduling decisions
> for the VCPU thread that is causing an unexpected delay in receiving timer
> interrupts. Hard to know without a log.
>
> >
> >>>>> - I am not familiar with the PMU test, so I cannot help you with that.
> >>>> Where is the output from running the PMU test? I didn't see it in the link
> >>>> below.
> >>> It's toward the end, it just says that 2 tests failed:
> >> If the test runner isn't capturing all the output of the tests somewhere,
> >> then it should. Naresh, is the pmu.log file somewhere?
> > For more detail I have shared LAVA log [1] and attached detail run output.
> >
> > timeout -k 1s --foreground 90s /usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64
> > -nodefaults -machine virt,gic-version=host,accel=kvm -cpu host -device
> > virtio-serial-device -device virtconsole,chardev=ctd -chardev
> > testdev,id=ctd -device pci-testdev -display none -serial stdio -kernel
> > arm/pmu.flat -smp 1 # -initrd /tmp/tmp.ZJ05lRvgc4
> > INFO: PMU version: 3
> > INFO: pmu: PMU implementer/ID code/counters: 0x41(\"A\")/0x3/6
> > PASS: pmu: Control register
> > Read 0 then 0.
> > FAIL: pmu: Monotonically increasing cycle count
> > instrs : cycles0 cycles1 ...
> > 4:    0
> > cycles not incrementing!
> > FAIL: pmu: Cycle/instruction ratio
> > SUMMARY: 3 tests, 2 unexpected failures
>
> This when running the tests with taskset, right?

Right.

>
> > [..]
> > timeout -k 1s --foreground 90s /usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64
> > -nodefaults -machine virt,gic-version=host,accel=kvm -cpu host -device
> > virtio-serial-device -device virtconsole,chardev=ctd -chardev
> > testdev,id=ctd -device pci-testdev -display none -serial stdio -kernel
> > arm/micro-bench.flat -smp 2 # -initrd /tmp/tmp.urqlMsBpJd
> > Timer Frequency 50000000 Hz (Output in microseconds)
> > name                                    total ns                         avg ns
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > hvc                                 296915440.0                         4530.0
> > mmio_read_user                     1322325100.0                        20177.0
> > mmio_read_vgic                      462255460.0                         7053.0
> > eoi                                   6779880.0                          103.0
> > qemu-system-aarch64: terminating on signal 15 from pid 3097 (timeout)
> >
> > [..]
>
> I think this is because you are running it on one physical CPU (it's exactly the
> same message I am getting when I use taskset to run the tests). Can you try and
> run it without taskset and see if it solves your issue?

Alright. I will run without taskset and share logs here.

>
> Thanks,
> Alex



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