Re: [PATCH 1/2] kunit: tool: Add x86_64-smp architecture for SMP testing

From: Marco Elver
Date: Wed May 18 2022 - 05:22:44 EST


On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 03:32PM +0800, 'David Gow' via KUnit Development wrote:
> Add a new QEMU config for kunit_tool, x86_64-smp, which provides an
> 8-cpu SMP setup. No other kunit_tool configurations provide an SMP
> setup, so this is the best bet for testing things like KCSAN, which
> require a multicore/multi-cpu system.
>
> The choice of 8 CPUs is pretty arbitrary: it's enough to get tests like
> KCSAN to run with a nontrivial number of worker threads, while still
> working relatively quickly on older machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> This is based off the discussion in:
> https://groups.google.com/g/kasan-dev/c/A7XzC2pXRC8
>
> ---
> tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64-smp.py | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64-smp.py
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64-smp.py b/tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64-smp.py
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a95623f5f8b7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/kunit/qemu_configs/x86_64-smp.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +from ..qemu_config import QemuArchParams
> +
> +QEMU_ARCH = QemuArchParams(linux_arch='x86_64',
> + kconfig='''
> +CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
> +CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> +CONFIG_SMP=y
> + ''',
> + qemu_arch='x86_64',
> + kernel_path='arch/x86/boot/bzImage',
> + kernel_command_line='console=ttyS0',
> + extra_qemu_params=['-smp', '8'])
> --
> 2.36.0.550.gb090851708-goog
>
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