diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
index 30afbad36cd55..9b2bebb64175b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ ifeq ($(ARCH),s390)
 	UNAME_M := s390x
 endif
 
-LIBKVM = lib/assert.c lib/elf.c lib/io.c lib/kvm_util.c lib/sparsebit.c lib/test_util.c
-LIBKVM_x86_64 = lib/x86_64/processor.c lib/x86_64/vmx.c lib/x86_64/svm.c lib/x86_64/ucall.c
+LIBKVM = lib/assert.c lib/elf.c lib/io.c lib/kvm_util.c lib/sparsebit.c \
+	 lib/test_util.c lib/perf_test_util.c
+LIBKVM_x86_64 = lib/x86_64/processor.c lib/x86_64/vmx.c lib/x86_64/svm.c \
+		lib/x86_64/ucall.c
 LIBKVM_aarch64 = lib/aarch64/processor.c lib/aarch64/ucall.c
 LIBKVM_s390x = lib/s390x/processor.c lib/s390x/ucall.c
 
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/demand_paging_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/demand_paging_test.c
index 32a42eafc6b5c..682805dd8c2ac 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/demand_paging_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/demand_paging_test.c
@@ -21,18 +21,12 @@
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/userfaultfd.h>
 
-#include "test_util.h"
-#include "kvm_util.h"
+#include "perf_test_util.h"
 #include "processor.h"
+#include "test_util.h"
 
 #ifdef __NR_userfaultfd
 
-/* The memory slot index demand page */
-#define TEST_MEM_SLOT_INDEX		1
-
-/* Default guest test virtual memory offset */
-#define DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM		0xc0000000
-
 #define DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM_SIZE (1 << 30) /* 1G */
 
 #ifdef PRINT_PER_PAGE_UPDATES
@@ -47,74 +41,14 @@
 #define PER_VCPU_DEBUG(...) _no_printf(__VA_ARGS__)
 #endif
 
-#define MAX_VCPUS 512
-
-/*
- * Guest/Host shared variables. Ensure addr_gva2hva() and/or
- * sync_global_to/from_guest() are used when accessing from
- * the host. READ/WRITE_ONCE() should also be used with anything
- * that may change.
- */
-static uint64_t host_page_size;
-static uint64_t guest_page_size;
-
 static char *guest_data_prototype;
 
-/*
- * Guest physical memory offset of the testing memory slot.
- * This will be set to the topmost valid physical address minus
- * the test memory size.
- */
-static uint64_t guest_test_phys_mem;
-
-/*
- * Guest virtual memory offset of the testing memory slot.
- * Must not conflict with identity mapped test code.
- */
-static uint64_t guest_test_virt_mem = DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM;
-
-struct vcpu_args {
-	uint64_t gva;
-	uint64_t pages;
-
-	/* Only used by the host userspace part of the vCPU thread */
-	int vcpu_id;
-	struct kvm_vm *vm;
-};
-
-static struct vcpu_args vcpu_args[MAX_VCPUS];
-
-/*
- * Continuously write to the first 8 bytes of each page in the demand paging
- * memory region.
- */
-static void guest_code(uint32_t vcpu_id)
-{
-	uint64_t gva;
-	uint64_t pages;
-	int i;
-
-	/* Make sure vCPU args data structure is not corrupt. */
-	GUEST_ASSERT(vcpu_args[vcpu_id].vcpu_id == vcpu_id);
-
-	gva = vcpu_args[vcpu_id].gva;
-	pages = vcpu_args[vcpu_id].pages;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
-		uint64_t addr = gva + (i * guest_page_size);
-
-		*(uint64_t *)addr = 0x0123456789ABCDEF;
-	}
-
-	GUEST_SYNC(1);
-}
-
 static void *vcpu_worker(void *data)
 {
 	int ret;
-	struct vcpu_args *args = (struct vcpu_args *)data;
-	struct kvm_vm *vm = args->vm;
-	int vcpu_id = args->vcpu_id;
+	struct vcpu_args *vcpu_args = (struct vcpu_args *)data;
+	int vcpu_id = vcpu_args->vcpu_id;
+	struct kvm_vm *vm = perf_test_args.vm;
 	struct kvm_run *run;
 	struct timespec start, end, ts_diff;
 
@@ -140,39 +74,6 @@ static void *vcpu_worker(void *data)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-#define PAGE_SHIFT_4K  12
-#define PTES_PER_4K_PT 512
-
-static struct kvm_vm *create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
-				uint64_t vcpu_memory_bytes)
-{
-	struct kvm_vm *vm;
-	uint64_t pages = DEFAULT_GUEST_PHY_PAGES;
-
-	/* Account for a few pages per-vCPU for stacks */
-	pages += DEFAULT_STACK_PGS * vcpus;
-
-	/*
-	 * Reserve twice the ammount of memory needed to map the test region and
-	 * the page table / stacks region, at 4k, for page tables. Do the
-	 * calculation with 4K page size: the smallest of all archs. (e.g., 64K
-	 * page size guest will need even less memory for page tables).
-	 */
-	pages += (2 * pages) / PTES_PER_4K_PT;
-	pages += ((2 * vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes) >> PAGE_SHIFT_4K) /
-		 PTES_PER_4K_PT;
-	pages = vm_adjust_num_guest_pages(mode, pages);
-
-	pr_info("Testing guest mode: %s\n", vm_guest_mode_string(mode));
-
-	vm = _vm_create(mode, pages, O_RDWR);
-	kvm_vm_elf_load(vm, program_invocation_name, 0, 0);
-#ifdef __x86_64__
-	vm_create_irqchip(vm);
-#endif
-	return vm;
-}
-
 static int handle_uffd_page_request(int uffd, uint64_t addr)
 {
 	pid_t tid;
@@ -185,7 +86,7 @@ static int handle_uffd_page_request(int uffd, uint64_t addr)
 
 	copy.src = (uint64_t)guest_data_prototype;
 	copy.dst = addr;
-	copy.len = host_page_size;
+	copy.len = perf_test_args.host_page_size;
 	copy.mode = 0;
 
 	clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &start);
@@ -202,7 +103,7 @@ static int handle_uffd_page_request(int uffd, uint64_t addr)
 	PER_PAGE_DEBUG("UFFDIO_COPY %d \t%ld ns\n", tid,
 		       timespec_to_ns(timespec_sub(end, start)));
 	PER_PAGE_DEBUG("Paged in %ld bytes at 0x%lx from thread %d\n",
-		       host_page_size, addr, tid);
+		       perf_test_args.host_page_size, addr, tid);
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -359,60 +260,15 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, bool use_uffd,
 	struct timespec start, end, ts_diff;
 	int *pipefds = NULL;
 	struct kvm_vm *vm;
-	uint64_t guest_num_pages;
 	int vcpu_id;
 	int r;
 
 	vm = create_vm(mode, vcpus, vcpu_memory_bytes);
 
-	guest_page_size = vm_get_page_size(vm);
-
-	TEST_ASSERT(vcpu_memory_bytes % guest_page_size == 0,
-		    "Guest memory size is not guest page size aligned.");
-
-	guest_num_pages = (vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes) / guest_page_size;
-	guest_num_pages = vm_adjust_num_guest_pages(mode, guest_num_pages);
-
-	/*
-	 * If there should be more memory in the guest test region than there
-	 * can be pages in the guest, it will definitely cause problems.
-	 */
-	TEST_ASSERT(guest_num_pages < vm_get_max_gfn(vm),
-		    "Requested more guest memory than address space allows.\n"
-		    "    guest pages: %lx max gfn: %x vcpus: %d wss: %lx]\n",
-		    guest_num_pages, vm_get_max_gfn(vm), vcpus,
-		    vcpu_memory_bytes);
-
-	host_page_size = getpagesize();
-	TEST_ASSERT(vcpu_memory_bytes % host_page_size == 0,
-		    "Guest memory size is not host page size aligned.");
-
-	guest_test_phys_mem = (vm_get_max_gfn(vm) - guest_num_pages) *
-			      guest_page_size;
-	guest_test_phys_mem &= ~(host_page_size - 1);
-
-#ifdef __s390x__
-	/* Align to 1M (segment size) */
-	guest_test_phys_mem &= ~((1 << 20) - 1);
-#endif
-
-	pr_info("guest physical test memory offset: 0x%lx\n", guest_test_phys_mem);
-
-	/* Add an extra memory slot for testing demand paging */
-	vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS,
-				    guest_test_phys_mem,
-				    TEST_MEM_SLOT_INDEX,
-				    guest_num_pages, 0);
-
-	/* Do mapping for the demand paging memory slot */
-	virt_map(vm, guest_test_virt_mem, guest_test_phys_mem, guest_num_pages, 0);
-
-	ucall_init(vm, NULL);
-
-	guest_data_prototype = malloc(host_page_size);
+	guest_data_prototype = malloc(perf_test_args.host_page_size);
 	TEST_ASSERT(guest_data_prototype,
 		    "Failed to allocate buffer for guest data pattern");
-	memset(guest_data_prototype, 0xAB, host_page_size);
+	memset(guest_data_prototype, 0xAB, perf_test_args.host_page_size);
 
 	vcpu_threads = malloc(vcpus * sizeof(*vcpu_threads));
 	TEST_ASSERT(vcpu_threads, "Memory allocation failed");
@@ -427,22 +283,18 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, bool use_uffd,
 
 		pipefds = malloc(sizeof(int) * vcpus * 2);
 		TEST_ASSERT(pipefds, "Unable to allocate memory for pipefd");
-	}
 
-	for (vcpu_id = 0; vcpu_id < vcpus; vcpu_id++) {
-		vm_paddr_t vcpu_gpa;
-		void *vcpu_hva;
-
-		vm_vcpu_add_default(vm, vcpu_id, guest_code);
+		for (vcpu_id = 0; vcpu_id < vcpus; vcpu_id++) {
+			vm_paddr_t vcpu_gpa;
+			void *vcpu_hva;
 
-		vcpu_gpa = guest_test_phys_mem + (vcpu_id * vcpu_memory_bytes);
-		PER_VCPU_DEBUG("Added VCPU %d with test mem gpa [%lx, %lx)\n",
-			       vcpu_id, vcpu_gpa, vcpu_gpa + vcpu_memory_bytes);
+			vcpu_gpa = guest_test_phys_mem + (vcpu_id * vcpu_memory_bytes);
+			PER_VCPU_DEBUG("Added VCPU %d with test mem gpa [%lx, %lx)\n",
+				       vcpu_id, vcpu_gpa, vcpu_gpa + vcpu_memory_bytes);
 
-		/* Cache the HVA pointer of the region */
-		vcpu_hva = addr_gpa2hva(vm, vcpu_gpa);
+			/* Cache the HVA pointer of the region */
+			vcpu_hva = addr_gpa2hva(vm, vcpu_gpa);
 
-		if (use_uffd) {
 			/*
 			 * Set up user fault fd to handle demand paging
 			 * requests.
@@ -459,30 +311,15 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, bool use_uffd,
 			if (r < 0)
 				exit(-r);
 		}
-
-#ifdef __x86_64__
-		vcpu_set_cpuid(vm, vcpu_id, kvm_get_supported_cpuid());
-#endif
-
-		vcpu_args[vcpu_id].vm = vm;
-		vcpu_args[vcpu_id].vcpu_id = vcpu_id;
-		vcpu_args[vcpu_id].gva = guest_test_virt_mem +
-					 (vcpu_id * vcpu_memory_bytes);
-		vcpu_args[vcpu_id].pages = vcpu_memory_bytes / guest_page_size;
 	}
 
-	/* Export the shared variables to the guest */
-	sync_global_to_guest(vm, host_page_size);
-	sync_global_to_guest(vm, guest_page_size);
-	sync_global_to_guest(vm, vcpu_args);
-
 	pr_info("Finished creating vCPUs and starting uffd threads\n");
 
 	clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &start);
 
 	for (vcpu_id = 0; vcpu_id < vcpus; vcpu_id++) {
 		pthread_create(&vcpu_threads[vcpu_id], NULL, vcpu_worker,
-			       &vcpu_args[vcpu_id]);
+			       &perf_test_args.vcpu_args[vcpu_id]);
 	}
 
 	pr_info("Started all vCPUs\n");
@@ -513,7 +350,8 @@ static void run_test(enum vm_guest_mode mode, bool use_uffd,
 	pr_info("Total guest execution time: %ld.%.9lds\n",
 		ts_diff.tv_sec, ts_diff.tv_nsec);
 	pr_info("Overall demand paging rate: %f pgs/sec\n",
-		guest_num_pages / ((double)ts_diff.tv_sec + (double)ts_diff.tv_nsec / 100000000.0));
+		perf_test_args.vcpu_args[0].pages * vcpus /
+		((double)ts_diff.tv_sec + (double)ts_diff.tv_nsec / 100000000.0));
 
 	ucall_uninit(vm);
 	kvm_vm_free(vm);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/perf_test_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/perf_test_util.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4d52b9ee13c42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/perf_test_util.h
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/perf_test_util.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2020, Google LLC.
+ */
+
+#ifndef SELFTEST_KVM_PERF_TEST_UTIL_H
+#define SELFTEST_KVM_PERF_TEST_UTIL_H
+
+#include "kvm_util.h"
+#include "processor.h"
+
+#define MAX_VCPUS 512
+
+#define PAGE_SHIFT_4K  12
+#define PTES_PER_4K_PT 512
+
+#define TEST_MEM_SLOT_INDEX		1
+
+/* Default guest test virtual memory offset */
+#define DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM		0xc0000000
+
+extern uint64_t guest_test_phys_mem;
+extern uint64_t guest_test_virt_mem;
+
+struct vcpu_args {
+	uint64_t gva;
+	uint64_t pages;
+
+	/* Only used by the host userspace part of the vCPU thread */
+	int vcpu_id;
+};
+
+struct perf_test_args {
+	struct kvm_vm *vm;
+	uint64_t host_page_size;
+	uint64_t guest_page_size;
+
+	struct vcpu_args vcpu_args[MAX_VCPUS];
+};
+
+extern struct perf_test_args perf_test_args;
+
+void guest_code(uint32_t vcpu_id);
+
+struct kvm_vm *create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
+			 uint64_t vcpu_memory_bytes);
+
+#endif /* SELFTEST_KVM_PERF_TEST_UTIL_H */
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fa7efbac9ef8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/perf_test_util.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2020, Google LLC.
+ */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE /* for program_invocation_name */
+
+#include "perf_test_util.h"
+
+/*
+ * Guest physical memory offset of the testing memory slot.
+ * This will be set to the topmost valid physical address minus
+ * the test memory size.
+ */
+uint64_t guest_test_phys_mem;
+
+/*
+ * Guest virtual memory offset of the testing memory slot.
+ * Must not conflict with identity mapped test code.
+ */
+uint64_t guest_test_virt_mem = DEFAULT_GUEST_TEST_MEM;
+
+struct perf_test_args perf_test_args;
+
+/*
+ * Continuously write to the first 8 bytes of each page in the
+ * specified region.
+ */
+void guest_code(uint32_t vcpu_id)
+{
+	struct vcpu_args *vcpu_args = &perf_test_args.vcpu_args[vcpu_id];
+	uint64_t gva;
+	uint64_t pages;
+	int i;
+
+	/* Make sure vCPU args data structure is not corrupt. */
+	GUEST_ASSERT(vcpu_args->vcpu_id == vcpu_id);
+
+	gva = vcpu_args->gva;
+	pages = vcpu_args->pages;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
+		uint64_t addr = gva + (i * perf_test_args.guest_page_size);
+
+		*(uint64_t *)addr = 0x0123456789ABCDEF;
+	}
+
+	GUEST_SYNC(1);
+}
+
+static void add_vcpus(struct kvm_vm *vm, int vcpus, uint64_t vcpu_memory_bytes)
+{
+	vm_paddr_t vcpu_gpa;
+	struct vcpu_args *vcpu_args;
+	int vcpu_id;
+
+	for (vcpu_id = 0; vcpu_id < vcpus; vcpu_id++) {
+		vcpu_args = &perf_test_args.vcpu_args[vcpu_id];
+
+		vm_vcpu_add_default(vm, vcpu_id, guest_code);
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+		vcpu_set_cpuid(vm, vcpu_id, kvm_get_supported_cpuid());
+#endif
+
+		vcpu_args->vcpu_id = vcpu_id;
+		vcpu_args->gva = guest_test_virt_mem +
+				 (vcpu_id * vcpu_memory_bytes);
+		vcpu_args->pages = vcpu_memory_bytes /
+				   perf_test_args.guest_page_size;
+
+		vcpu_gpa = guest_test_phys_mem + (vcpu_id * vcpu_memory_bytes);
+		pr_debug("Added VCPU %d with test mem gpa [%lx, %lx)\n",
+			 vcpu_id, vcpu_gpa, vcpu_gpa + vcpu_memory_bytes);
+	}
+}
+
+struct kvm_vm *create_vm(enum vm_guest_mode mode, int vcpus,
+			 uint64_t vcpu_memory_bytes)
+{
+	struct kvm_vm *vm;
+	uint64_t pages = DEFAULT_GUEST_PHY_PAGES;
+	uint64_t guest_num_pages;
+
+	/* Account for a few pages per-vCPU for stacks */
+	pages += DEFAULT_STACK_PGS * vcpus;
+
+	/*
+	 * Reserve twice the ammount of memory needed to map the test region and
+	 * the page table / stacks region, at 4k, for page tables. Do the
+	 * calculation with 4K page size: the smallest of all archs. (e.g., 64K
+	 * page size guest will need even less memory for page tables).
+	 */
+	pages += (2 * pages) / PTES_PER_4K_PT;
+	pages += ((2 * vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes) >> PAGE_SHIFT_4K) /
+		 PTES_PER_4K_PT;
+	pages = vm_adjust_num_guest_pages(mode, pages);
+
+	pr_info("Testing guest mode: %s\n", vm_guest_mode_string(mode));
+
+	vm = _vm_create(mode, pages, O_RDWR);
+	kvm_vm_elf_load(vm, program_invocation_name, 0, 0);
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+	vm_create_irqchip(vm);
+#endif
+
+	perf_test_args.vm = vm;
+	perf_test_args.guest_page_size = vm_get_page_size(vm);
+	perf_test_args.host_page_size = getpagesize();
+
+	TEST_ASSERT(vcpu_memory_bytes % perf_test_args.guest_page_size == 0,
+		    "Guest memory size is not guest page size aligned.");
+
+	guest_num_pages = (vcpus * vcpu_memory_bytes) /
+			  perf_test_args.guest_page_size;
+	guest_num_pages = vm_adjust_num_guest_pages(mode, guest_num_pages);
+
+	/*
+	 * If there should be more memory in the guest test region than there
+	 * can be pages in the guest, it will definitely cause problems.
+	 */
+	TEST_ASSERT(guest_num_pages < vm_get_max_gfn(vm),
+		    "Requested more guest memory than address space allows.\n"
+		    "    guest pages: %lx max gfn: %x vcpus: %d wss: %lx]\n",
+		    guest_num_pages, vm_get_max_gfn(vm), vcpus,
+		    vcpu_memory_bytes);
+
+	TEST_ASSERT(vcpu_memory_bytes % perf_test_args.host_page_size == 0,
+		    "Guest memory size is not host page size aligned.");
+
+	guest_test_phys_mem = (vm_get_max_gfn(vm) - guest_num_pages) *
+			      perf_test_args.guest_page_size;
+	guest_test_phys_mem &= ~(perf_test_args.host_page_size - 1);
+
+#ifdef __s390x__
+	/* Align to 1M (segment size) */
+	guest_test_phys_mem &= ~((1 << 20) - 1);
+#endif
+
+	pr_info("guest physical test memory offset: 0x%lx\n", guest_test_phys_mem);
+
+	/* Add an extra memory slot for testing */
+	vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS,
+				    guest_test_phys_mem,
+				    TEST_MEM_SLOT_INDEX,
+				    guest_num_pages, 0);
+
+	/* Do mapping for the demand paging memory slot */
+	virt_map(vm, guest_test_virt_mem, guest_test_phys_mem, guest_num_pages, 0);
+
+	ucall_init(vm, NULL);
+
+	add_vcpus(vm, vcpus, vcpu_memory_bytes);
+
+	sync_global_to_guest(vm, perf_test_args);
+
+	return vm;
+}
+
