Re: [PATCH v5 22/22] tests/liveupdate: Add in-kernel liveupdate test

From: Pasha Tatashin

Date: Wed Nov 12 2025 - 15:41:31 EST


On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 04:03:20PM -0500, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> > Introduce an in-kernel test module to validate the core logic of the
> > Live Update Orchestrator's File-Lifecycle-Bound feature. This
> > provides a low-level, controlled environment to test FLB registration
> > and callback invocation without requiring userspace interaction or
> > actual kexec reboots.
> >
> > The test is enabled by the CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_TEST Kconfig option.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c | 2 +
> > kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h | 8 ++
> > lib/Kconfig.debug | 23 ++++++
> > lib/tests/Makefile | 1 +
> > lib/tests/liveupdate.c | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 164 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 lib/tests/liveupdate.c
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c
> > index 713069b96278..4c0a75918f3d 100644
> > --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c
> > +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c
> > @@ -829,6 +829,8 @@ int liveupdate_register_file_handler(struct liveupdate_file_handler *fh)
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fh->flb_list);
> > list_add_tail(&fh->list, &luo_file_handler_list);
> >
> > + liveupdate_test_register(fh);
> > +
>
> Do it mean that every flb user will be added here?

No, FLB users will use:

liveupdate_register_flb() from various subsystems. This
liveupdate_test_register() is only to allow kernel test to register
test-FLBs to every single file-handler for in-kernel testing purpose
only.

Pasha