[PATCH v7 08/20] KVM: selftests: Add helper to get host IRQ from device MSI-X for IRQ bypass test

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Jun 12 17:20:19 PDT 2026


From: David Matlack <dmatlack at google.com>

Introduce proc_util.c and proc_util.h to house utility functions for
interacting with the proc filesystem.

Add vfio_msix_to_host_irq(), which parses /proc/interrupts, to get the host
Linux IRQ for a given VFIO device BDF and MSI-X vector.

This helper will be used by the eventfd IRQ test to print the host IRQ
number when triggering IRQs via VFIO device, e.g. to aid in debugging if
the test fails.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack at google.com>
Co-developed-by: Josh Hilke <jrhilke at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hilke <jrhilke at google.com>
[sean: massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm      |  1 +
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/proc_util.h |  9 +++++
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/proc_util.c   | 40 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/proc_util.h
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/proc_util.c

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
index de5f6e91203b..c112cedd3a2a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ LIBKVM += lib/kvm_util.c
 LIBKVM += lib/lru_gen_util.c
 LIBKVM += lib/memstress.c
 LIBKVM += lib/guest_sprintf.c
+LIBKVM += lib/proc_util.c
 LIBKVM += lib/rbtree.c
 LIBKVM += lib/sparsebit.c
 LIBKVM += lib/test_util.c
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/proc_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/proc_util.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..704839b6d7af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/proc_util.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+#ifndef SELFTEST_KVM_PROC_UTIL_H
+#define SELFTEST_KVM_PROC_UTIL_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+unsigned int vfio_msix_to_host_irq(const char *vfio_device_bdf, int msix);
+
+#endif /* SELFTEST_KVM_PROC_UTIL_H */
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/proc_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/proc_util.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84d30f055a0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/proc_util.c
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include "kvm_util.h"
+#include "test_util.h"
+#include "proc_util.h"
+
+static FILE *open_proc_interrupts(void)
+{
+	FILE *fp;
+
+	fp = fopen("/proc/interrupts", "r");
+	TEST_ASSERT(fp, "fopen(/proc/interrupts) failed");
+
+	return fp;
+}
+
+unsigned int vfio_msix_to_host_irq(const char *device_bdf, int msix)
+{
+	char search_string[64];
+	char line[4096];
+	int irq = -1;
+	FILE *fp;
+
+	fp = open_proc_interrupts();
+
+	snprintf(search_string, sizeof(search_string), "vfio-msix[%d]", msix);
+
+	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp)) {
+		if (strstr(line, device_bdf) && strstr(line, search_string)) {
+			TEST_ASSERT_EQ(1, sscanf(line, "%d:", &irq));
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	fclose(fp);
+
+	TEST_ASSERT(irq != -1, "Failed to locate IRQ for %s %s", device_bdf,
+		    search_string);
+	return (unsigned int)irq;
+}
+
-- 
2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog




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