On Tue, Sep 22, 2026, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote: > KVM selftests are built with -fno-PIE/-no-pie so the binary uses fixed > load addresses. > On powerpc64, GNU ld default links at 0x10000000 (256M) which is also > the MEM_GPA, so the identity map trips with the error: > PTE already present at level: 4 gva: 0x10000000 pte:0xc00000000002018f > > Put the test slots at 512M instead which is past the ELF. > e.g. failure w/o this fix: > > ./memslot_perf_test -s 514
This, and any other adjustments/fixes to get common test functional on PPC needs to land *before* the tests are enabled.
