Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v6 0/6] CSS Mesurement Block

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On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:41:48 +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.
> This patch has recently hit QEMU master ...
> 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.
> 
> 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, 539 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 

Series looks good to me.




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