linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/20] torture: Stop hanging on panic

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Message-Id: <20210106172607.22816-14-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed,  6 Jan 2021 09:26:01 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/20] torture: Stop hanging on panic

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

By default, the "panic" kernel parameter is zero, which causes the kernel
to loop indefinitely after a panic().  The rcutorture scripting will
eventually kill the corresponding qemu process, but only after waiting
for the full run duration plus a few minutes.  This works, but delays
notifying the developer of the failure.

This commit therefore causes the rcutorture scripting to pass the
"panic=-1" kernel parameter, which caused the kernel to instead
unceremoniously shut down immediately.  This in turn causes qemu to
terminate, so that if all of the runs in a given batch panic(), the
rcutorture scripting can immediately proceed to the next batch.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
index 97c3a17..c35ba24 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ identify_qemu () {
 # and the TORTURE_QEMU_INTERACTIVE environment variable.
 identify_qemu_append () {
 	echo debug_boot_weak_hash
+	echo panic=-1
 	local console=ttyS0
 	case "$1" in
 	qemu-system-x86_64|qemu-system-i386)
-- 
2.9.5