Hi Sean,

Thanks for your reviewing.

On 1/27/24 04:25, Sean Christopherson wrote:

+Peter

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023, Shaoqin Huang wrote:

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When execute the dirty_log_test on some aarch64 machine, it sometimes trigger the ASSERT:

==== Test Assertion Failure ==== dirty_log_test.c:384: dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full pid=14854 tid=14854 errno=22 - Invalid argument 1 0x00000000004033eb: dirty_ring_collect_dirty_pages at dirty_log_test.c:384 2 0x0000000000402d27: log_mode_collect_dirty_pages at dirty_log_test.c:505 3 (inlined by) run_test at dirty_log_test.c:802 4 0x0000000000403dc7: for_each_guest_mode at guest_modes.c:100 5 0x0000000000401dff: main at dirty_log_test.c:941 (discriminator 3) 6 0x0000ffff9be173c7: ?? ??:0 7 0x0000ffff9be1749f: ?? ??:0 8 0x000000000040206f: _start at ??:? Didn't continue vcpu even without ring full

The dirty_log_test fails when execute the dirty-ring test, this is because the sem_vcpu_cont and the sem_vcpu_stop is non-zero value when execute the dirty_ring_collect_dirty_pages() function. When those two sem_t variables are non-zero, the dirty_ring_wait_vcpu() at the beginning of the dirty_ring_collect_dirty_pages() will not wait for the vcpu to stop, but continue to execute the following code. In this case, before vcpu stop, if the dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full is true, and the dirty_ring_collect_dirty_pages() has passed the check for the dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full but hasn't execute the check for the continued_vcpu, the vcpu stop, and set the dirty_ring_vcpu_ring_full to false. Then dirty_ring_collect_dirty_pages() will trigger the ASSERT.

Why sem_vcpu_cont and sem_vcpu_stop can be non-zero value? It's because the dirty_ring_before_vcpu_join() execute the sem_post(&sem_vcpu_cont) at the end of each dirty-ring test. It can cause two cases:

1. sem_vcpu_cont be non-zero. When we set the host_quit to be true, the vcpu_worker directly see the host_quit to be true, it quit. So the log_mode_before_vcpu_join() function will set the sem_vcpu_cont to 1, since the vcpu_worker has quit, it won't consume it.
2. sem_vcpu_stop be non-zero. When we set the host_quit to be true, the vcpu_worker has entered the guest state, the next time it exit from guest state, it will set the sem_vcpu_stop to 1, and then see the host_quit, no one will consume the sem_vcpu_stop.

When execute more and more dirty-ring tests, the sem_vcpu_cont and sem_vcpu_stop can be larger and larger, which makes many code paths don't wait for the sem_t. Thus finally cause the problem.

To fix this problem, we can wait a while before set the host_quit to true, which gives the vcpu time to enter the guest state, so it will exit again. Then we can wait the vcpu to exit, and let it continue again, then the vcpu will see the host_quit. Thus the sem_vcpu_cont and sem_vcpu_stop will be both zero when test finished.

Signed-off-by: Shaoqin Huang shahuang@redhat.com

v1->v2:

• Fix the real logic bug, not just fresh the context.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231116093536.22256-1-shahuang@redhat.com/

tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c index 936f3a8d1b83..a6e0ff46a07c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/dirty_log_test.c @@ -417,7 +417,8 @@ static void dirty_ring_after_vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int ret, int err) static void dirty_ring_before_vcpu_join(void) {

• /* Kick another round of vcpu just to make sure it will quit */

• /* Wait vcpu exit, and let it continue to see the host_quit. */
• dirty_ring_wait_vcpu(); sem_post(&sem_vcpu_cont); }

@@ -719,6 +720,7 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg) struct kvm_vm *vm; unsigned long *bmap; uint32_t ring_buf_idx = 0;

• int sem_val;

if (!log_mode_supported()) { print_skip("Log mode '%s' not supported", @@ -726,6 +728,11 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg) return; }

• sem_getvalue(&sem_vcpu_stop, &sem_val);
• assert(sem_val == 0);
• sem_getvalue(&sem_vcpu_cont, &sem_val);
• assert(sem_val == 0);

Never use bare assert() in selftests, they'll either get compiled out or IIRC, will cause the test to silently exit if they fail. Either do nothing, or use TEST_ASSERT().

Sure. I will replace them with TEST_ASSERT().

...

• /*
  • We reserve page table for 2 times of extra dirty mem which
  • will definitely cover the original (1G+) test range. Here

@@ -825,6 +832,13 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, void *arg) sync_global_to_guest(vm, iteration); }

• /*

• *
  

• * Before we set the host_quit, let the vcpu has time to run, to make
  

• * sure we consume the sem_vcpu_stop and the vcpu consume the
  

• * sem_vcpu_cont, to keep the semaphore balance.
  

• */
  

• usleep(p->interval * 1000);

Please no. "Wait for a while" is never a complete solution for fixing races. In rare cases, adding a delay might be the only sane workaround, but I doubt that's the case here.

If that's the case. I guess I should keep the current solution. Except you have any better solution, please let me know.

Thanks, Shaoqin