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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: selftests: Enable dirty_log_test on s390x
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On 30/07/2019 16.57, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
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>
> On 30.07.19 12:01, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> To run the dirty_log_test on s390x, we have to make sure that we
>> access the dirty log bitmap with little endian byte ordering and
>> we have to properly align the memslot of the guest.
>> Also all dirty bits of a segment are set once on s390x when one
>> of the pages of a segment are written to for the first time, so
>> we have to make sure that we touch all pages during the first
>> iteration to keep the test in sync here.
>
> While this fixes the test (and the migration does work fine), it still
> means that s390x overindicates the dirty bit for sparsely populated
> 1M segments. It is just a performance issue, but maybe we should try
> to get this fixed.

I hope you don't expect me to fix this - the gmap code is really not my
turf...

> Not sure what to do here to remember us about this,
> adding this as expected fail?

There is no such thing like an expected failure in KVM selftests -
that's only available in kvm-unit-tests.

So the only option that I currently see is to add a printf("TODO: ...")
on s390x here... would that work for you?

Thomas

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