On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:00:04PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote: > Add forced emulation of MOV and LOCK CMPXCHG instructions in the dirty log > test's guest code to verify that KVM's emulator marks pages dirty as > expected (and obviously to verify the emulator works at all). In the long > term, the guest code would ideally hammer more of KVM's emulator, but for > starters, cover the two major paths: writes and atomics. > > To minimize #ifdeffery, wrap only the related code that is x86 specific, > unnecessariliy synchronizing an extra boolean to the guest is far from the > end of the world. Meh, I wouldn't say the end result in guest_write_memory() is that pretty. Just ifdef the whole function and provide a generic implementation for the other architectures. > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c > index eaad5b20854c..ff1d1c7f05d8 100644 > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c > @@ -92,6 +92,29 @@ static uint64_t guest_test_phys_mem; > */ > static uint64_t guest_test_virt_mem = DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM; > > +static bool is_forced_emulation_enabled; > + > +static void guest_write_memory(uint64_t *mem, uint64_t val, uint64_t rand) > +{ > +#ifdef __x86_64__ > + if (is_forced_emulation_enabled && (rand & 1)) { > + if (rand & 2) { Can't you invert the logic and drop a level of indentation? if (!(is_forced_emulation_enabled && (rand & 1))) { *mem = val; } else if (rand & 2) { movq } else { cmpxchg8b } > + __asm__ __volatile__(KVM_FEP "movq %1, %0" > + : "+m" (*mem) > + : "r" (val) : "memory"); > + } else { > + uint64_t __old = READ_ONCE(*mem); > + > + __asm__ __volatile__(KVM_FEP LOCK_PREFIX "cmpxchgq %[new], %[ptr]" > + : [ptr] "+m" (*mem), [old] "+a" (__old) > + : [new]"r" (val) : "memory", "cc"); > + } > + } else > +#endif > + > + *mem = val; > +} > + -- Thanks, Oliver