Re: [GIT PULL] KVM: x86: Selftests changes for 6.9

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Mar 11 2024 - 10:36:15 EST


On 3/8/24 23:36, Sean Christopherson wrote:
Add SEV(-ES) smoke tests, and start building out infrastructure to utilize the
"core" selftests harness and TAP. In addition to provide TAP output, using the
infrastructure reduces boilerplate code and allows running all testscases in a
test, even if a previous testcase fails (compared with today, where a testcase
failure is terminal for the entire test).

Hmm, now I remember why I would have liked to include the AMD SEV changes in 6.9 --- because they get rid of the "subtype" case in selftests.

It's not a huge deal, it's just a nicer API, and anyway I'm not going to ask you to rebase on top of my changes; and you couldn't have known that when we talked about it last Wednesday, since the patches are for the moment closely guarded on my hard drive.

But it may still be a good reason to sneak those as well in the second week of the 6.9 merge window, though I'm not going to make a fuss if you disagree.

Paolo