Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v4 0/8] Move npt test cases and NPT code improvements

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On 5/9/2022 9:42 AM, Shukla, Manali wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/28/2022 12:38 PM, Manali Shukla wrote:
>> If __setup_vm() is changed to setup_vm(), KUT will build tests with 
>> PT_USER_MASK set on all PTEs. It is a better idea to move nNPT tests to their
>> own file so that tests don't need to fiddle with page tables midway.
>>
>> The quick approach to do this would be to turn the current main into a small
>> helper, without calling __setup_vm() from helper.
>>
>> setup_mmu_range() function in vm.c was modified to allocate new user pages to 
>> implement nested page table.
>>
>> Current implementation of nested page table does the page table build up 
>> statistically with 2048 PTEs and one pml4 entry. With newly implemented
>> routine, nested page table can be implemented dynamically based on the RAM size
>> of VM which enables us to have separate memory ranges to test various npt test
>> cases.
>>
>> Based on this implementation, minimal changes were required to be done in below
>> mentioned existing APIs:
>> npt_get_pde(), npt_get_pte(), npt_get_pdpe().
>>
>> v1 -> v2
>> Added new patch for building up a nested page table dynamically and did minimal
>> changes required to make it adaptable with old test cases.
>>
>> v2 -> v3
>> Added new patch to change setup_mmu_range to use it in implementation of nested
>> page table.
>> Added new patches to correct indentation errors in svm.c, svm_npt.c and 
>> svm_tests.c.
>> Used scripts/Lindent from linux source code to fix indentation errors.
>>
>> v3 -> v4
>> Lindent script was not working as expected. So corrected indentation errors in
>> svm.c and svm_tests.c without using Lindent
>>
>> Manali Shukla (8):
>>   x86: nSVM: Move common functionality of the main() to helper
>>     run_svm_tests
>>   x86: nSVM: Move all nNPT test cases from svm_tests.c to a separate
>>     file.
>>   x86: nSVM: Allow nSVM tests run with PT_USER_MASK enabled
>>   x86: Improve set_mmu_range() to implement npt
>>   x86: nSVM: Build up the nested page table dynamically
>>   x86: nSVM: Correct indentation for svm.c
>>   x86: nSVM: Correct indentation for svm_tests.c part-1
>>   x86: nSVM: Correct indentation for svm_tests.c part-2
>>
>>  lib/x86/vm.c        |   37 +-
>>  lib/x86/vm.h        |    3 +
>>  x86/Makefile.common |    2 +
>>  x86/Makefile.x86_64 |    2 +
>>  x86/svm.c           |  227 ++-
>>  x86/svm.h           |    5 +-
>>  x86/svm_npt.c       |  391 +++++
>>  x86/svm_tests.c     | 3365 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>>  x86/unittests.cfg   |    6 +
>>  9 files changed, 2035 insertions(+), 2003 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 x86/svm_npt.c
>>
> 
> A gentle remainder 
> 
> Thank you 
> Manali

A gentle reminder for the review.

Thank you,
Manali



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