[PATCH 4/5] selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-sessions kexec test

Pasha Tatashin
2026-04-14T20:02:46Z

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.

Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/Makefile | 1 +
.../liveupdate/luo_stress_sessions.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++
.../selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.c | 25 +++++
.../selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.h | 2 +
4 files changed, 126 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_stress_sessions.c

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/Makefile
index 080754787ede..ed7534468386 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS += liveupdate

TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED += luo_kexec_simple
TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED += luo_multi_session
+TEST_GEN_PROGS_EXTENDED += luo_stress_sessions

TEST_FILES += do_kexec.sh

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_stress_sessions.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_stress_sessions.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cd6e9bb0db3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_stress_sessions.c
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2026, Google LLC.
+ * Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
+ *
+ * Validate that LUO can handle a large number of sessions across a kexec
+ * reboot.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "luo_test_utils.h"
+
+#define NUM_SESSIONS 2000
+#define STATE_SESSION_NAME "kexec_many_state"
+#define STATE_MEMFD_TOKEN 999
+
+/* Stage 1: Executed before the kexec reboot. */
+static void run_stage_1(int luo_fd)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 1] Increasing ulimit for open files...\n");
+ luo_ensure_nofile_limit(NUM_SESSIONS + 10);
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 1] Creating state file for next stage (2)...\n");
+ create_state_file(luo_fd, STATE_SESSION_NAME, STATE_MEMFD_TOKEN, 2);
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 1] Creating %d sessions...\n", NUM_SESSIONS);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_SESSIONS; i++) {
+ char name[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH];
+ int s_fd;
+
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "many-test-%d", i);
+ s_fd = luo_create_session(luo_fd, name);
+ if (s_fd < 0) {
+ fail_exit("luo_create_session for '%s' at index %d",
+ name, i);
+ }
+ }
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 1] Successfully created %d sessions.\n",
+ NUM_SESSIONS);
+
+ close(luo_fd);
+ daemonize_and_wait();
+}
+
+/* Stage 2: Executed after the kexec reboot. */
+static void run_stage_2(int luo_fd, int state_session_fd)
+{
+ int i, stage;
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 2] Starting post-kexec verification...\n");
+
+ restore_and_read_stage(state_session_fd, STATE_MEMFD_TOKEN, &stage);
+ if (stage != 2) {
+ fail_exit("Expected stage 2, but state file contains %d",
+ stage);
+ }
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 2] Retrieving and finishing %d sessions...\n",
+ NUM_SESSIONS);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NUM_SESSIONS; i++) {
+ char name[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH];
+ int s_fd;
+
+ snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "many-test-%d", i);
+ s_fd = luo_retrieve_session(luo_fd, name);
+ if (s_fd < 0) {
+ fail_exit("luo_retrieve_session for '%s' at index %d",
+ name, i);
+ }
+
+ if (luo_session_finish(s_fd) < 0) {
+ fail_exit("luo_session_finish for '%s' at index %d",
+ name, i);
+ }
+ close(s_fd);
+ }
+
+ ksft_print_msg("[STAGE 2] Finalizing state session...\n");
+ if (luo_session_finish(state_session_fd) < 0)
+ fail_exit("luo_session_finish for state session");
+ close(state_session_fd);
+
+ ksft_print_msg("\n--- MANY-SESSIONS KEXEC TEST PASSED (%d sessions) ---\n",
+ NUM_SESSIONS);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+ return luo_test(argc, argv, STATE_SESSION_NAME,
+ run_stage_1, run_stage_2);
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.c
index 3c8721c505df..37c330b9bb36 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>

#include "luo_test_utils.h"

@@ -28,6 +29,30 @@ int luo_open_device(void)
return open(LUO_DEVICE, O_RDWR);
}

+void luo_ensure_nofile_limit(long min_limit)
+{
+ struct rlimit hl;
+
+ if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &hl) < 0)
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("getrlimit failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+
+ if (hl.rlim_cur >= min_limit)
+ return;
+
+ hl.rlim_cur = min_limit;
+ if (hl.rlim_cur > hl.rlim_max)
+ hl.rlim_max = hl.rlim_cur;
+
+ if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &hl) < 0) {
+ if (errno == EPERM) {
+ ksft_exit_skip("Insufficient privileges to set RLIMIT_NOFILE to %ld\n",
+ hl.rlim_cur);
+ }
+ ksft_exit_fail_msg("setrlimit to %ld failed: %s\n",
+ hl.rlim_cur, strerror(errno));
+ }
+}
+
int luo_create_session(int luo_fd, const char *name)
{
struct liveupdate_ioctl_create_session arg = { .size = sizeof(arg) };
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.h b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.h
index 90099bf49577..9174d6757a7f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/luo_test_utils.h
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ int luo_create_session(int luo_fd, const char *name);
int luo_retrieve_session(int luo_fd, const char *name);
int luo_session_finish(int session_fd);

+void luo_ensure_nofile_limit(long min_limit);
+
int create_and_preserve_memfd(int session_fd, int token, const char *data);
int restore_and_verify_memfd(int session_fd, int token, const char *expected_data);

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