[PATCH] kselftest: kvm/arm64: Skip tests if we can't create a vgic-v3

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Jan 26 04:52:22 PST 2022


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:07:48AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> >  	/* Distributor setup */
> > -	gic_fd = kvm_create_device(vm, KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3, false);
> > +	gic_fd = kvm_create_device(vm, KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3, true);

> So you now only test whether it is possible to create a virtual GICv3,
> but don't actually create it. How does this work?

Oh, that's rather obscure in the API - so the file descriptor returned
if the test flag is specified can't actually be used?
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