Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/9] KVM: Enable Nested Virt selftests

From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni
Date: Thu Jun 19 2025 - 05:40:52 EST



[Sorry for late reply]

On 5/29/2025 5:18 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2025 11:29:58 +0100,
Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi Eric,

On 5/28/2025 6:58 PM, Eric Auger wrote:
Hi Ganapatrao,

On 5/12/25 12:52 PM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
This patch series makes the selftest work with NV enabled. The guest code
is run in vEL2 instead of EL1. We add a command line option to enable
testing of NV. The NV tests are disabled by default.

For commodity, I would add in the coverletter that for all tests
enhanced with vEL2 testing "-g 1" option shall be added to force that mode.

Sure, will do.


I don't really get how you chose tests capable to run at vEL2 and
excluded others? Wouldn't it make sense to have a way to run all tests
in either mode?
There is no selection as such. I have worked on around 50% of the tests and sent for the early review.
Yes, almost all tests can/should run in vEL2 except few.

Define EL2. You are so far assuming a E2H RES1 guest, and I don't see
anything that is even trying E2H RES0. After all the complaining that

Sure, I will mention that default test code runs in EL2 with E2H enabled.
The tests code is in vEL2 with E2H RES1 by default, since host is booted with VHE.

E2H0 wasn't initially supported, this is a bit... disappointing.
IIRC, I was mentioning about L1 switching between arch mmu table and guest mmu table(VMID 0).
I don't remember why It was switching.
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Also, running EL2 is the least of our worries, because that's pretty
easy to deal with. It is running at EL1/0 when EL2 is present that is
interesting, and I see no coverage on that front.

Sorry, I did not get this comment fully.
When we run selftest on Host with -g option, the guest code will run in vEL2 as L1.
This is implemented as per comment in V1.

When we run same selftest from L1 shell, then guest_code will be running in EL0/1 like running from L0.

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Thanks,
Gk