Re: [PATCH v3] stress-module: stress finit_module() and delete_module()

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Wed Mar 22 2023 - 14:05:03 EST


On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:23:50PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> Example uses:
>
> sudo ./stress-ng --module 1 --module-name xfs
> sudo ./stress-ng --module 1 --module-name xfs --module-sharedfd

The use case with --module 8192 was causing some errors from
stress-ng having unexpected bail out messages before ramp up.

> diff --git a/stress-module.c b/stress-module.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 00000000..cee581bd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/stress-module.c
> + //snprintf(module_path, strlen(module_path), "%s/%s/%s",
> + snprintf(module_path, PATH_MAX*2, "%s/%s/%s",
> + dirname_default_prefix,
> + u.release, module);
> + ret = 0;

I forgot to remove this stray comment.

> + /*
> + * We're not stressing the modules.dep --> module path lookup,
> + * just the finit_module() calls and so only do the lookup once.
> + */
> + if (args->instance != 0) {
> + if (!module_path_found)
> + return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> + }

So here was the reason for the complaints, Although changing this to
return just EXIT_NO_RESOURCE cures the warning, I don't think the
non instance 0 workers are doing anything then. Is that right Collin?

Luis