Re: [KVM] e923b0537d: kernel-selftests.kvm.rseq_test.fail

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Hi Sean,

On 8/16/22 3:02 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
On 8/16/22 7:42 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, kernel test robot wrote:
commit: e923b0537d28e15c9d31ce8b38f810b325816903 ("KVM: selftests: Fix target thread to be migrated in rseq_test")
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master

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# selftests: kvm: rseq_test
# ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
#   rseq_test.c:278: i > (NR_TASK_MIGRATIONS / 2)
#   pid=49599 tid=49599 errno=4 - Interrupted system call
#      1    0x000000000040265d: main at rseq_test.c:278
#      2    0x00007fe44eed07fc: ?? ??:0
#      3    0x00000000004026d9: _start at ??:?
#   Only performed 23174 KVM_RUNs, task stalled too much?
#
not ok 56 selftests: kvm: rseq_test # exit=254

...

# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
# Linux/x86_64 5.19.0-rc6 Kernel Configuration
#
CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="gcc-11 (Debian 11.3.0-3) 11.3.0"
CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=110300
CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
CONFIG_AS_IS_GNU=y
CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23800
CONFIG_LD_IS_BFD=y
CONFIG_LD_VERSION=23800
CONFIG_LLD_VERSION=0

Assuming 23800 == 2.38, this is a known issue.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220810104114.6838-1-gshan@xxxxxxxxxx


It's probably different story this time. The assert is triggered because
of the following instructions. I would guess the reason is vcpu thread
has been running on CPU where we has high CPU load. In this case, the
vcpu thread can't be run in time. More specific, the vcpu thread can't
be run in the 1 - 10us time window, which is specified by the migration
worker (thread).

     TEST_ASSERT(i > (NR_TASK_MIGRATIONS / 2),
                 "Only performed %d KVM_RUNs, task stalled too much?\n", i);

I think we need to improve the handshake mechanism between the vcpu thread
and migration worker. In current implementation, the handshake is done through
the atomic counter. The mechanism is simple enough, but vcpu thread can miss
the aforementioned time window. Another issue is the test case much more time
than expected to finish.

Sean, if you think it's reasonable, I can figure out something to do:

- Reuse the atomic counter for a full synchronization between these two
   threads. Something like below:

   #define RSEQ_TEST_STATE_RUN_VCPU       0     // vcpu_run()
   #define RSEQ_TEST_STATE_MIGRATE        1     // sched_setaffinity()
   #define RSEQ_TEST_STATE_CHECK          2     // Check rseq.cpu_id and get_cpu()

   The atomic counter is reset to RSEQ_TEST_STATE_RUN_VCPU after RSEQ_TEST_STATE_RUN_VCPU

- Reduce NR_TASK_MIGRATIONS from 100000 to num_of_online_cpus(). With this,
   less time is needed to finish the test case.


I'm able to recreate the issue on my local arm64 system.

- From the source code, the iteration count is changed from 100000 to 1000
- Only CPU#0 and CPU#1 are exposed in calc_min_max_cpu, meaning other CPUs
  are cleared from @possible_mask
- Run some CPU bound task on CPU#0 and CPU#1
  # while true; do taskset -c 0 ./a; done
  # while true; do taskset -c 1 ./a; done
- Run 'rseq_test' and hit the issue
  # ./rseq_test
  calc_min_max_cpu: nproc=224
  calc_min_max_cpu: min_cpu=0, max_cpu=1
  main: Required tests: 1000   Succeeds: 1
  ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
    rseq_test.c:280: i > (NR_TASK_MIGRATIONS / 2)
    pid=9624 tid=9624 errno=4 - Interrupted system call
       1	0x0000000000401cf3: main at rseq_test.c:280
       2	0x0000ffffbc64679b: ?? ??:0
       3	0x0000ffffbc64686b: ?? ??:0
       4	0x0000000000401def: _start at ??:?
    Only performed 1 KVM_RUNs, task stalled too much?

Thanks,
Gavin





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