Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v10 5/7] arm/locking-tests: add comprehensive locking test

[Andrew Jones]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 11:28:43AM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This test has been written mainly to stress multi-threaded TCG behaviour
> but will demonstrate failure by default on real hardware. The test takes
> the following parameters:
> 
>   - "lock" use GCC's locking semantics
>   - "atomic" use GCC's __atomic primitives
>   - "wfelock" use WaitForEvent sleep
>   - "excl" use load/store exclusive semantics
> 
> Also two more options allow the test to be tweaked
> 
>   - "noshuffle" disables the memory shuffling
>   - "count=%ld" set your own per-CPU increment count
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Message-Id: <20211118184650.661575-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> 
> ---
> v9
>   - move back to unittests.cfg, drop accel=tcg
>   - s/printf/report_info
> v10
>   - dropped spare extra line in shuffle_memory
> ---
>  arm/Makefile.common |   2 +-
>  arm/locking-test.c  | 321 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arm/spinlock-test.c |  87 ------------
>  arm/unittests.cfg   |  30 +++++
>  4 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arm/locking-test.c
>  delete mode 100644 arm/spinlock-test.c
> 
> diff --git a/arm/Makefile.common b/arm/Makefile.common
> index 2c4aad38..3089e3bf 100644
> --- a/arm/Makefile.common
> +++ b/arm/Makefile.common
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>  #
>  
>  tests-common  = $(TEST_DIR)/selftest.flat
> -tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/spinlock-test.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/pci-test.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/pmu.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/gic.flat
> @@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/psci.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/sieve.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/pl031.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/tlbflush-code.flat
> +tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/locking-test.flat
>  
>  tests-all = $(tests-common) $(tests)
>  all: directories $(tests-all)
> diff --git a/arm/locking-test.c b/arm/locking-test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..a49c2fd1
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arm/locking-test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,321 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +/*
> + * Locking Test
> + *
> + * This test allows us to stress the various atomic primitives of a VM
> + * guest. A number of methods are available that use various patterns
> + * to implement a lock.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2017 Linaro
> + * Author: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + */
> +
> +#include <libcflat.h>
> +#include <asm/smp.h>
> +#include <asm/cpumask.h>
> +#include <asm/barrier.h>
> +#include <asm/mmu.h>
> +
> +#include <prng.h>
> +
> +#define MAX_CPUS 8
> +
> +/* Test definition structure
> + *
> + * A simple structure that describes the test name, expected pass and
> + * increment function.
> + */

nit: This and many comment blocks below are missing their opening wings.

Thanks,
drew