[PATCH v2] rcutorture: kvm-again.sh: Fix re-run failure on ppc64
From: Zhouyi Zhou
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 05:14:21 EST
Discovered in the Open Source Lab of Oregon State University when running
torture.sh on a ppc64le VM. Two bugs were exposed:
1. The kvm-transform.sh call hard-coded "bzImage" as the kernel image
name. On ppc64, the boot image is vmlinux, not bzImage, so the
re-run failed to find the image. Fix this by extracting the QEMU
binary from the qemu-cmd file and passing it to identify_boot_image()
to obtain the correct architecture-specific image name, the same way
kvm.sh already does.
2. The rm -f invocation on re-run listed vmlinux among the files to
delete. On ppc64 vmlinux is the boot image, so deleting it broke
the re-run on that architecture. Drop vmlinux from the list.
Tested on a local x86_64 machine and on a PPC VM of the Open Source Lab
of Oregon State University.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Remove blank line between qemu_binary and boot_image assignments
for cleaner style.
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-again.sh | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-again.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-again.sh
index b5239b52cb5d..cacc9f2b230d 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-again.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-again.sh
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ then
echo "Cannot copy from $oldrun to $rundir."
usage
fi
- rm -f "$rundir"/*/{console.log,console.log.diags,qemu_pid,qemu-pid,qemu-retval,Warnings,kvm-test-1-run.sh.out,kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh.out,vmlinux} "$rundir"/log
+ rm -f "$rundir"/*/{console.log,console.log.diags,qemu_pid,qemu-pid,qemu-retval,Warnings,kvm-test-1-run.sh.out,kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh.out} "$rundir"/log
touch "$rundir/log"
echo $scriptname $args | tee -a "$rundir/log"
echo $oldrun > "$rundir/re-run"
@@ -217,7 +217,10 @@ do
qemu_cmd_dir="`dirname "$i"`"
kernel_dir="`echo $qemu_cmd_dir | sed -e 's/\.[0-9]\+$//'`"
jitter_dir="`dirname "$kernel_dir"`"
- kvm-transform.sh "$kernel_dir/bzImage" "$qemu_cmd_dir/console.log" "$jitter_dir" "$dur" "$bootargs" < $T/qemu-cmd > $i
+ qemu_binary="`grep -v '^#' $T/qemu-cmd | awk 'NF { print $1; exit }'`"
+ boot_image="`identify_boot_image "$qemu_binary"`"
+ kvm-transform.sh "$kernel_dir/`basename $boot_image`" "$qemu_cmd_dir/console.log" "$jitter_dir" "$dur" "$bootargs" < $T/qemu-cmd > $i
if test -n "$arg_remote"
then
echo "# TORTURE_KCONFIG_GDB_ARG=''" >> $i
--
2.43.0