[PATCH v7 17/20] KVM: selftests: Add a utility to pin a task to a random CPU, given a CPU set

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Fri Jun 12 17:20:28 PDT 2026


From: Josh Hilke <jrhilke at google.com>

Add a helper function, pin_task_to_random_cpu(), to pin a task to a random
CPU from a given cpu_set_t.

This helper will be used eventfd IRQ test to migrate vCPUs to random pCPUs,
to stress host-side interrupt routing and delivery.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hilke <jrhilke at google.com>
[sean: massage changelog]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
---
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h  |  2 ++
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c    | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
index c1f588154398..b39e713c30a4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
@@ -1094,6 +1094,8 @@ static inline void pin_task_to_cpu(pthread_t task, int cpu)
 	TEST_ASSERT(!r, "Failed to set thread affinity to pCPU '%u'", cpu);
 }
 
+void pin_task_to_random_cpu(pthread_t task, cpu_set_t *possible_cpus);
+
 static inline int pin_task_to_any_cpu(pthread_t task)
 {
 	int cpu = sched_getcpu();
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
index 9bf28b7d9d7a..2eee1e46f9e9 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
@@ -667,6 +667,27 @@ void kvm_print_vcpu_pinning_help(void)
 	       "     (default: no pinning)\n", name, name);
 }
 
+void pin_task_to_random_cpu(pthread_t task, cpu_set_t *possible_cpus)
+{
+	int target_idx;
+	int nr_cpus;
+	int cpu;
+
+	nr_cpus = CPU_COUNT(possible_cpus);
+	TEST_ASSERT(nr_cpus > 0, "No CPUs available in possible_cpus");
+
+	target_idx = kvm_random_u64(&kvm_rng) % nr_cpus;
+
+	for (cpu = 0; cpu < CPU_SETSIZE; cpu++) {
+		if (CPU_ISSET(cpu, possible_cpus) && target_idx-- == 0) {
+			pin_task_to_cpu(task, cpu);
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	TEST_FAIL("Failed to find random CPU in possible_cpus");
+}
+
 void kvm_parse_vcpu_pinning(const char *pcpus_string, u32 vcpu_to_pcpu[],
 			    int nr_vcpus)
 {
-- 
2.54.0.1136.gdb2ca164c4-goog




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