Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] KVM: selftests: Add support for creating non-default type VMs

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 04:07:19PM +0000, David Matlack wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:47:44PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, David Matlack wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:37:54AM -0700, Erdem Aktas wrote:
> > > > Currently vm_create function only creates KVM_X86_LEGACY_VM type VMs.
> > > > Changing the vm_create function to accept type parameter to create
> > > > new VM types.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@google.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> > 
> > *-by tags should not be added unless explicitly provided.  IIRC, our internal
> > gerrit will convert +1 to Reviewed-by, but I don't think that's the case here.
> > This applies to all patches in this series.
> > 
> > See "Using Reported-by:, Tested-by:, Reviewed-by:, Suggested-by: and Fixes:" in
> > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more info.
> > 
> > > > Reviewed-by: Peter Gonda <pgonda@google.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> > > 
> > > (aside from the nit below)
> > > 
> > > > ---
> > > >  .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h  |  1 +
> > > >  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 29 +++++++++++++++++--
> > > >  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > > > index d53bfadd2..c63df42d6 100644
> > > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> > > > @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ int vcpu_enable_cap(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpu_id,
> > > >  void vm_enable_dirty_ring(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t ring_size);
> > > >  
> > > >  struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm);
> > > > +struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm, int type);
> > > 
> > > nit: Consider using a more readable function name such as
> > > vm_create_with_type().
> > 
> > Ha!  This is why I don't like doing internal reviews :-D
> 
> +1 :)
> 
> > 
> > Erdem originally had vm_create_type(), I suggested __vm_create() as the double
> > underscore scheme is more common in the kernel for cases where there's a default
> > wrapper and an inner helper that implements the full API.
> > 
> > Convention aside, the argument againsts ...with_type() are that it doesn't scale,
> > e.g. if someone adds another parameter parameter for which vm_create() provides a
> > default, and it doesn't self-document the relationship between vm_create() and
> > the inner helper, e.g. by convention, based on names alone I know that vm_create()
> > likely is a wrapper around __vm_create().
> 
> True, although with __vm_create() is not solving the scalability
> problem, it's just preventing scaling altogether (you can only have 1
> wrapper function, vm_create). So if any caller wants to override one of
> the defaults they have to override all of them.
> 
> I agree with you though in this case: __vm_create() is a better choice
> (especially given the existence of vm_create_with_vcpus).
> 
> A better option than both (but would involve more work) would be to
> create an options struct with all optional arguments. Unfortunately C
> makes working with options structs a bit clumsy. But it's something to
> consider as the number of options passed to __vm_create increases.
> 
> For example:
> 
> struct vm_options {
>         enum vm_guest_mode mode;
>         uint64_t phy_pages;
>         int perm;
>         int type;
> };
> 
> struct kvm_vm *vm_create(const struct vm_options *options)
> {
>         ...
> }
> 
> static const struct vm_options default_vm_options = {
>   .mode = VM_MODE_DEFAULT,
>   .phy_pages = DEFAULT_GUEST_PHY_PAGES,
>   .perm = O_RDWR,
>   .type = DEFAULT_VM_TYPE,
> };
> 
> /* Create a VM with default options. */
> vm = create_vm(&default_vm_options);
> 
> /* Create a VM with TDX enabled. */
> struct vm_options options = default_vm_options;
> options.type = VM_TYPE_TDX;
> vm = create_vm(&options);

I like this.

Thanks,
drew