From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Amirmohammad Eftekhar <amirmohammad.eftekhar@cispa.de>,
Sashiko Bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 16/21] KVM: selftests: Test L1 "up" and L2 "down" in nested TSC scaling test
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:36:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260930173635.3362655-17-seanjc@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260930173635.3362655-1-seanjc@google.com>
Now that the guts of the nested TSC scaling test support scaling L2 down,
validate all four combinations of scaling up/down L1 and L2. Ideally, the
test would also validate integer+fractional scale up scenarios, but
prioritize keeping the test and math somewhat understandable.
Opportunistically drop the stale file comment about the test's name.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
.../kvm/x86/nested_tsc_scaling_test.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/nested_tsc_scaling_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/nested_tsc_scaling_test.c
index ee8fda310e33..1d578af393bd 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/nested_tsc_scaling_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/nested_tsc_scaling_test.c
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
/*
- * vmx_nested_tsc_scaling_test
- *
* Copyright 2021 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This test case verifies that nested TSC scaling behaves as expected when
- * both L1 and L2 are scaled using different ratios. For this test we scale
- * L1 down and scale L2 up.
+ * both L1 and L2 are scaled using different ratios.
*/
#include <linux/math64.h>
#include <time.h>
@@ -226,7 +223,21 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
/* Sanity check the frequency reported by KVM_GET_TSC_KHZ. */
test_tsc_scaling(l0_tsc_freq, l0_tsc_freq, l0_tsc_freq, BIT_ULL(frac_bits));
- /* Scale L1 "down" and L2 "up" at a random factor from 2 to 10. */
+ /*
+ * Scale L1 and L2 up and down at random factors from 2 to 10. Current
+ * CPUs have two full orders of magnitude of "breathing room" before an
+ * ultrafast L0 TSC frequency multiplied by 10x will encounter KVM's
+ * signed 32-bit limit on L1's frequency, and it's highly unlikely a
+ * CPU that supports TSC scaling will show up running at 100MHz, i.e.
+ * underflowing KVM's minimum 1KHz frequency is extremely unlikely.
+ *
+ * For L2, the frequency is limited only by what hardware can support,
+ * not by KVM's limits. SVM provides 8 bits of integer scale up, and
+ * 32 bits of fractional scale down, i.e. can scale up 255x and down a
+ * comical amount, so scaling up 100x and down 1/100 is well within
+ * hardware's capabilities (VMX provides 16 bits of "up" and 48 bits of
+ * "down").
+ */
l1_scale = (kvm_random_u32(&kvm_rng) % 9) + 2;
l2_scale = (kvm_random_u32(&kvm_rng) % 9) + 2;
@@ -234,5 +245,17 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
mul_u64_u64_div64(l0_tsc_freq, l2_scale, l1_scale),
(l2_scale << frac_bits));
+ test_tsc_scaling(l0_tsc_freq, l0_tsc_freq * l1_scale,
+ mul_u64_u64_div64(l0_tsc_freq, l1_scale, l2_scale),
+ (1ull << frac_bits) / l2_scale);
+
+ test_tsc_scaling(l0_tsc_freq, l0_tsc_freq / l1_scale,
+ l0_tsc_freq / l1_scale / l2_scale,
+ (1ull << frac_bits) / l2_scale);
+
+ test_tsc_scaling(l0_tsc_freq, l0_tsc_freq * l1_scale,
+ l0_tsc_freq * l1_scale * l2_scale,
+ (l2_scale << frac_bits));
+
return 0;
}
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-30 17:36 [PATCH v3 00/21] KVM: x86: Fix nested TSC scaling edge cases Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 01/21] KVM: x86: Saturate L2's TSC frequency if it exceeds hardware supports Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 02/21] KVM: SVM: Fallback to the default TSC ratio if KVM tries to use a bad multiplier Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 03/21] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to set KVM's max supported guest TSC frequency Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 04/21] KVM: selftests: Use KVM's pRNG to randomize L1's TSC ratio in TSC scaling test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 05/21] KVM: selftests: Drop redundant VMWRITE of TSC_MULTIPLIER_HIGH Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 06/21] KVM: selftests: Drop unnecessary use of PRIu64 in nested TSC scaling test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 07/21] KVM: selftests: Randomize L2's scale factor " Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 08/21] KVM: selftests: Rename TSC freq checkers " Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 09/21] KVM: selftests: Extract guts of nested TSC scaling test to helper function Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 10/21] KVM: selftests: Track L2 multiplier, not scale-up factor, in nested TSC test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 11/21] KVM: selftests: Print out the failing L{0,1,2} level in nested TSC scaling test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 12/21] KVM: selftests: Allow +/- 1 tolerance if expected TSC frequency is <100 Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 13/21] KVM: selftests: Use KVM's reported TSC KHz as L0's frequency (sanity checked) Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] KVM: selftests: Explicitly pass TSC frequencies to guts of TSC scaling test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 15/21] KVM: selftests: Sanity check KVM's default TSC freq in nested " Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 17/21] KVM: selftests: Verify that KVM saturates L2 TSC freq on {under,over}flow Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 18/21] KVM: selftests: Test non-zero TSC offset on SVM in nested TSC scaling test Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 19/21] KVM: selftests: Randomize L2's TSC offset in the " Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 20/21] KVM: selftests: Use GUEST_SYNC2() in " Sean Christopherson
2026-09-30 17:36 ` [PATCH v3 21/21] KVM: selftests: Spell out UCALL in nested TSC scaling test's enums Sean Christopherson
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