Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] KVM: selftests / xen: don't explicitly set the vcpu_info address

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 11:49:20 EST


On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 11:21 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the vCPU id is set and the shared_info is mapped using HVA then we can
> infer that KVM has the ability to use a default vcpu_info mapping. Hence
> we can stop setting the address of the vcpu_info structure.

Again that means we're not *testing* it any more when the test is run
on newer kernels. Can we perhaps set it explicitly, after *half* the
tests are done? Maybe to a *different* address than the default which
is derived from the Xen vcpu_id? And check that the memcpy works right
when we do?

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