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From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Anushree Mathur <anushree.mathur@linux.ibm.com>,
	Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
	Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 8/9] KVM: PPC: selftests: Skip idle-page check when running nested on pseries LPAR
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:58:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd4a29b096f5ffa23198cfea469a0ea0f535bf13.1790101179.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1790101179.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>

Same nested TLB/access bit issue like x86. Use the is_pseries_lpar()
check to detect when running nested kvm on pseries LPAR to only warn on
idle-page check.

Reported-by: Anushree Mathur <anushree.mathur@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/access_tracking_perf_test.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/access_tracking_perf_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/access_tracking_perf_test.c
index 4415c94b2866..94bfb82f7b79 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/access_tracking_perf_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/access_tracking_perf_test.c
@@ -470,6 +470,17 @@ static int access_tracking_unreliable(void)
 		puts("Skipping idle page count sanity check, because the test is run nested");
 		return 1;
 	}
+#endif
+#ifdef __powerpc64__
+	/*
+	 * Nested KVM (pSeries LPAR) can hide accessed/idle, since KVM doesn't
+	 * explicitely flush the TLB for access bit update. L0 keeps
+	 * translations cached so the guest won't see the idle bit cleared.
+	 */
+	if (is_pseries_lpar()) {
+		puts("Skipping idle page count sanity check, because the test is run nested");
+		return 1;
+	}
 #endif
 	/*
 	 * When NUMA balancing is enabled, guest memory will be unmapped to get
-- 
2.39.5


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-22 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-22 18:28 [PATCH v5 0/9] KVM: selftests: add powerpc support Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] KVM: PPC: selftests: add support for powerpc Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] KVM: selftests: Enable kvm_create_max_vcpus test " Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] KVM: selftests: Don't limit LE dirty-bitmap bitops to s390x Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] KVM: selftests: Split out a KVM_CREATE_VCPU helper that can fail Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] KVM: selftests: Make kvm_create_max_vcpus tolerate ENOMEM Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] KVM: selftests: Limit the number of VM creates in hardware_disable_test Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] KVM: PPC: selftests: Make nested case on pseries LPARs as resource constrained Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-09-22 18:28 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-09-22 18:28 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] KVM: selftests: Move memslot_perf_test off the 256M ELF load address Ritesh Harjani (IBM)

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