Commit ea09ace3 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson
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KVM: selftests: Print the seed for the guest pRNG iff it has changed



Print the guest's random seed during VM creation if and only if the seed
has changed since the seed was last printed.  The vast majority of tests,
if not all tests at this point, set the seed during test initialization
and never change the seed, i.e. printing it every time a VM is created is
useless noise.

Snapshot and print the seed during early selftest init to play nice with
tests that use the kselftests harness, at the cost of printing an unused
seed for tests that change the seed during test-specific initialization,
e.g. dirty_log_perf_test.  The kselftests harness runs each testcase in a
separate process that is forked from the original process before creating
each testcase's VM, i.e. waiting until first VM creation will result in
the seed being printed by each testcase despite it never changing.  And
long term, the hope/goal is that setting the seed will be handled by the
core framework, i.e. that the dirty_log_perf_test wart will naturally go
away.

Reported-by: default avatarYi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240627021756.144815-2-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
parent 17019d51
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