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Ensure the vCPU fully completes at least one write in each dirty_log_test iteration, as failure to dirty any pages complicates verification and forces the test to be overly conservative about possible values. E.g. verification needs to allow the last dirty page from a previous iteration to have *any* value, because the vCPU could get stuck for multiple iterations, which is unlikely but can happen in heavily overloaded and/or nested virtualization setups. Somewhat arbitrarily set the minimum to 0x100/256; high enough to be interesting, but not so high as to lead to pointlessly long runtimes. Opportunistically report the number of writes per iteration for debug purposes, and so that a human can sanity check the test. Due to each write targeting a random page, the number of dirty pages will likely be lower than the number of total writes, but it shouldn't be absurdly lower (which would suggest the pRNG is broken) Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250111003004.1235645-17-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.