Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v5 0/6] CSS Mesurement Block

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:54:01 +0100
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue,  9 Mar 2021 13:51:11 +0100
> Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We tests the update of the Mesurement Block (MB) format 0
> > and format 1 using a serie of senseid requests.
> > 
> > *Warning*: One of the tests for format-1 will unexpectedly fail for QEMU elf
> > unless the QEMU patch "css: SCHIB measurement block origin must be aligned"
> > is applied.  
> 
> That one has hit QEMU master by now.
> 
> > With Protected Virtualization, the PGM is correctly recognized.
> > 
> > The MB format 1 is only provided if the Extended mesurement Block
> > feature is available.
> > 
> > This feature is exposed by the CSS characteristics general features
> > stored by the Store Channel Subsystem Characteristics CHSC command,
> > consequently, we implement the CHSC instruction call and the SCSC CHSC
> > command.
> > 
> > In order to ease the writing of new tests using:
> > - interrupt
> > - enablement of a subchannel
> > - multiple I/O on a subchannel
> > 
> > We do the following simplifications:
> > - we create a CSS initialization routine
> > - we register the I/O interrupt handler on CSS initialization
> > - we do not enable or disable a subchannel in the senseid test,
> >   assuming this test is done after the enable test, this allows
> >   to create traffic using the SSCH used by senseid.
> > - failures not part of the feature under test will stop the tests.
> > - we add a css_enabled() function to test if a subchannel is enabled.
> > 
> > *note*:
> >     I rearranged the use of the senseid for the tests, by not modifying
> >     the existing test and having a dedicated senseid() function for
> >     the purpose of the tests.
> >     I think that it is in the rigght way so I kept the RB and ACK on
> >     the simplification, there are less changes, if it is wrong from me
> >     I suppose I will see this in the comments.
> >     Since the changed are moved inside the fmt0 test which is not approved
> >     for now I hope it is OK.  
> 
> I'll double-check, but I think it should be ok.

...that said, I found some reordering issues, but nothing major;
generally, it looks good to me.

> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Pierre
> > 
> > Pierre Morel (6):
> >   s390x: css: Store CSS Characteristics
> >   s390x: css: simplifications of the tests
> >   s390x: css: extending the subchannel modifying functions
> >   s390x: css: implementing Set CHannel Monitor
> >   s390x: css: testing measurement block format 0
> >   s390x: css: testing measurement block format 1
> > 
> >  lib/s390x/css.h     | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  lib/s390x/css_lib.c | 236 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  s390x/css.c         | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  3 files changed, 540 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> >   
> 




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