On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:52:17 +0100,
Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The existing redistributor-region test already adds valid partial
> regions, rejects a later region that collides with the distributor, and
> retries with a valid region. Its guest code does not access a
> redistributor, so it misses redistributor MMIO bus entries lost by the
> failed rollback.
>
> Run a guest that reads GICR_TYPER from the second redistributor in the
> original region and verifies its processor number. Put the test layout
What does test layout mean here?
> outside the default guest memory slot so an absent iodev results in a
> KVM_EXIT_MMIO instead of an ordinary RAM access.
I really hope that accessing an iodev *never* results in RAM
access. That'd be... unproductive, at the very least.
>
> Allow the common VGIC setup helper to select the guest entry point so the
> retry case can reuse the normal test setup.
[...]
This really need to be split. One patch to change the testing
infrastructure, another one for whatever new test you want to add.
Thanks,
M.
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