linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] torture: Announce kernel boot status at torture-test startup

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Message-Id: <20250816000837.2622858-3-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:08:33 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] torture: Announce kernel boot status at torture-test startup

Sometimes a given system takes surprisingly long to boot, for example,
in one recent case, 70 seconds instead of three seconds.  It would
be good to fix these slow-boot issues, but it would also be good for
the torture tests to announce that the system was still booting at the
start of the test.  Especially for tests that have a greater probability
of false positives when run in the single-CPU boot-time environment.
Yes, those tests should defend themselves, but we should also make this
situation easier to diagnose.

This commit therefore causes torture_print_module_parms() to print
"still booting" at the end of its printk() that dumps out the values of
its module parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/torture.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/torture.c b/kernel/torture.c
index 3a0a8cc604010a..5abb4b25d971cc 100644
--- a/kernel/torture.c
+++ b/kernel/torture.c
@@ -797,8 +797,9 @@ static unsigned long torture_init_jiffies;
 static void
 torture_print_module_parms(void)
 {
-	pr_alert("torture module --- %s:  disable_onoff_at_boot=%d ftrace_dump_at_shutdown=%d verbose_sleep_frequency=%d verbose_sleep_duration=%d random_shuffle=%d\n",
-		 torture_type, disable_onoff_at_boot, ftrace_dump_at_shutdown, verbose_sleep_frequency, verbose_sleep_duration, random_shuffle);
+	pr_alert("torture module --- %s:  disable_onoff_at_boot=%d ftrace_dump_at_shutdown=%d verbose_sleep_frequency=%d verbose_sleep_duration=%d random_shuffle=%d%s\n",
+		 torture_type, disable_onoff_at_boot, ftrace_dump_at_shutdown, verbose_sleep_frequency, verbose_sleep_duration, random_shuffle,
+		 rcu_inkernel_boot_has_ended() ? "" : " still booting");
 }

 /*
-- 
2.40.1