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

2025-11-27T22:24:42Z

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

kernel/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_multi_session.c, branch linux-6.19.y

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