torture: Stop hanging on panic
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:27:42 +0000 (13:27 -0800)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:01:23 +0000 (14:01 -0800)
commitf716348f29d30e8ef3a1ceed3fea19490aba4fe4
tree0a3daab24b5a32ec7bbf02c03181f09d2989df5e
parent0beb394878a46bad6358f81dde2ef4aa0ef68af5
torture: Stop hanging on panic

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@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/functions.sh