Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: selftests: Create source of randomness for guest code.

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On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 06:22:05PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022, Ricardo Koller wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 07:01:57PM +0000, Colton Lewis wrote:
> > > David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > I think this is broken if !partition_vcpu_memory_access. nr_randoms
> > > > (per-vCPU) should be `nr_vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes >> vm->page_shift`.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Agree it will break then and should not. But allocating that many more
> > > random numbers may eat too much memory. In a test with 64 vcpus, it would
> > > try to allocate 64x64 times as many random numbers. I'll try it but may
> > > need something different in that case.
> > 
> > You might want to reconsider the idea of using a random number generator
> > inside the guest. IRC the reasons against it were: quality of the random
> > numbers, and that some random generators use floating-point numbers. I
> > don't think the first one is a big issue. The second one might be an
> > issue if we want to generate non-uniform distributions (e.g., poisson);
> > but not a problem for now.
> 
> I'm pretty I had coded up a pseudo-RNG framework for selftests at one point, but
> I cant find the code in my morass of branches and stashes :-(

Here's an option that was once proposed by Alex Bennee for kvm-unit-tests.
(Someday we need to revisit that MTTCG series...)

https://gitlab.com/rhdrjones/kvm-unit-tests/-/commit/2fc51790577c9f91214f72ef51ee5d0e8bbb1b7e

Thanks,
drew

>  
> Whatever we do, make sure the randomness and thus any failures are easily
> reproducible, i.e. the RNG needs to be seeded pseudo-RNG, not fully random.



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