KVM: selftests: Create VM with adjusted number of guest pages for perf tests
authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:03:08 +0000 (00:03 +0000)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:43:27 +0000 (07:43 -0500)
Use the already computed guest_num_pages when creating the so called
extra VM pages for a perf test, and add a comment explaining why the
pages are allocated as extra pages.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Message-Id: <20211111000310.1435032-11-dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c

index a0aded8..b3154b5 100644 (file)
@@ -77,9 +77,13 @@ struct kvm_vm *perf_test_create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
                    "Guest memory cannot be evenly divided into %d slots.",
                    slots);
 
+       /*
+        * Pass guest_num_pages to populate the page tables for test memory.
+        * The memory is also added to memslot 0, but that's a benign side
+        * effect as KVM allows aliasing HVAs in meslots.
+        */
        vm = vm_create_with_vcpus(mode, vcpus, DEFAULT_GUEST_PHY_PAGES,
-                                 (vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes) / pta->guest_page_size,
-                                 0, guest_code, NULL);
+                                 guest_num_pages, 0, guest_code, NULL);
 
        pta->vm = vm;