kernel/linux.git/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate, branch v7.2-rc1

selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-files kexec test

2026-06-03T18:15:46+00:00

Add a new luo_stress_files kexec test that verifies preserving and retrieving 500 files across a kexec reboot. Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-14-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-sessions kexec test

2026-06-03T18:15:46+00:00

Add a new test that creates 2000 LUO sessions before a kexec reboot and verifies their presence after the reboot. This ensures that the linked-block serialization mechanism works correctly for a large number of sessions. Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-13-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

selftests/liveupdate: Test session and file limit removal

2026-06-03T18:15:46+00:00

With the removal of static limits on the number of sessions and files per session, the orchestrator now uses dynamic allocation. Add new test cases to verify that the system can handle a large number of sessions and files. These tests ensure that the dynamic block allocation and reuse logic for session metadata and outgoing files work correctly beyond the previous static limits. Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603154402.468928-12-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

selftests/liveupdate: add test cases for LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME

2026-05-31T23:31:38+00:00

Verify that the new LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl works as expected via new test cases in the existing liveupdate selftest. Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429212221.814107-5-luca.boccassi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

selftests/liveupdate: add test cases for LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION calls with invalid length

2026-05-31T23:31:37+00:00

Verify that LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl which provide a name that is an empty string or too long are not allowed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429212221.814107-3-luca.boccassi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)

selftests: liveupdate: add test for double preservation

2026-04-18T07:10:49+00:00

Verify that a file can only be preserved once across all active sessions. Attempting to preserve it a second time, whether in the same or a different session, should fail with EBUSY. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326163943.574070-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: David Matlack Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions

2025-11-27T22:24:42+00:00

Introduce a new kexec-based selftest, luo_kexec_multi_session, to validate the end-to-end lifecycle of a more complex LUO scenario. While the existing luo_kexec_simple test covers the basic end-to-end lifecycle, it is limited to a single session with one preserved file. This new test significantly expands coverage by verifying LUO's ability to handle a mixed workload involving multiple sessions, some of which are intentionally empty. This ensures that the LUO core correctly preserves and restores the state of all session types across a reboot. The test validates the following sequence: Stage 1 (Pre-kexec): - Creates two empty test sessions (multi-test-empty-1, multi-test-empty-2). - Creates a session with one preserved memfd (multi-test-files-1). - Creates another session with two preserved memfds (multi-test-files-2), each containing unique data. - Creates a state-tracking session to manage the transition to Stage 2. - Executes a kexec reboot via the helper script. Stage 2 (Post-kexec): - Retrieves the state-tracking session to confirm it is in the post-reboot stage. - Retrieves all four test sessions (both the empty and non-empty ones). - For the non-empty sessions, restores the preserved memfds and verifies their contents match the original data patterns. - Finalizes all test sessions and the state session to ensure a clean teardown and that all associated kernel resources are correctly released. This test provides greater confidence in the robustness of the LUO framework by validating its behavior in a more realistic, multi-faceted scenario. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-19-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Tested-by: David Matlack Cc: Aleksander Lobakin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andriy Shevchenko Cc: anish kumar Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Chanwoo Choi Cc: Chen Ridong Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Jeffery Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guixin Liu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lukas Wunner Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Matthew Maurer Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Myugnjoo Ham Cc: Parav Pandit Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: William Tu Cc: Yoann Congal Cc: Zhu Yanjun Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO

2025-11-27T22:24:41+00:00

Introduce a kexec-based selftest, luo_kexec_simple, to validate the end-to-end lifecycle of a Live Update Orchestrator session across a reboot. While existing tests verify the uAPI in a pre-reboot context, this test ensures that the core functionality—preserving state via Kexec Handover and restoring it in a new kernel—works as expected. The test operates in two stages, managing its state across the reboot by preserving a dedicated "state session" containing a memfd. This mechanism dogfoods the LUO feature itself for state tracking, making the test self-contained. The test validates the following sequence: Stage 1 (Pre-kexec): - Creates a test session (test-session). - Creates and preserves a memfd with a known data pattern into the test session. - Creates the state-tracking session to signal progression to Stage 2. - Executes a kexec reboot via a helper script. Stage 2 (Post-kexec): - Retrieves the state-tracking session to confirm it is in the post-reboot stage. - Retrieves the preserved test session. - Restores the memfd from the test session and verifies its contents match the original data pattern written in Stage 1. - Finalizes both the test and state sessions to ensure a clean teardown. The test relies on a helper script (do_kexec.sh) to perform the reboot and a shared utility library (luo_test_utils.c) for common LUO operations, keeping the main test logic clean and focused. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-18-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Zhu Yanjun Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Tested-by: David Matlack Cc: Aleksander Lobakin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andriy Shevchenko Cc: anish kumar Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Chanwoo Choi Cc: Chen Ridong Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Jeffery Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guixin Liu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lukas Wunner Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Matthew Maurer Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Myugnjoo Ham Cc: Parav Pandit Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: William Tu Cc: Yoann Congal Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests

2025-11-27T22:24:41+00:00

Introduce a selftest suite for LUO. These tests validate the core userspace-facing API provided by the /dev/liveupdate device and its associated ioctls. The suite covers fundamental device behavior, session management, and the file preservation mechanism using memfd as a test case. This provides regression testing for the LUO uAPI. The following functionality is verified: Device Access: Basic open and close operations on /dev/liveupdate. Enforcement of exclusive device access (verifying EBUSY on a second open). Session Management: Successful creation of sessions with unique names. Failure to create sessions with duplicate names. File Preservation: Preserving a single memfd and verifying its content remains intact post-preservation. Preserving multiple memfds within a single session, each with unique data. A complex scenario involving multiple sessions, each containing a mix of empty and data-filled memfds. Note: This test suite is limited to verifying the pre-kexec functionality of LUO (e.g., session creation, file preservation). The post-kexec restoration of resources is not covered, as the kselftest framework does not currently support orchestrating a reboot and continuing execution in the new kernel. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251125165850.3389713-17-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Tested-by: David Matlack Cc: Aleksander Lobakin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Alice Ryhl Cc: Andriy Shevchenko Cc: anish kumar Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Borislav Betkov Cc: Chanwoo Choi Cc: Chen Ridong Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Daniel Wagner Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Jeffery Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guixin Liu Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ilpo Järvinen Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Joanthan Cameron Cc: Joel Granados Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lukas Wunner Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Matthew Maurer Cc: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Myugnjoo Ham Cc: Parav Pandit Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Song Liu Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleinxer Cc: Thomas Weißschuh Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: William Tu Cc: Yoann Congal Cc: Zhu Yanjun Cc: Zijun Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton