From: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, okuji@enbug.org
Subject: [patch 0/5] RFC: fault-injection capabilities
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:32:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060823113243.210352005@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
This patch set provides some fault-injection capabilities.
- kmalloc failures
- alloc_pages() failures
- disk IO errors
We can see what really happens if those failures happen.
In order to enable these fault-injection capabilities:
1. Enable relevant config options (CONFIG_FAILSLAB, CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC,
CONFIG_MAKE_REQUEST) and runtime configuration kernel module
(CONFIG_SHOULD_FAIL_KNOBS)
2. build and boot with this kernel
3. modprobe should_fail_knob
4. configure fault-injection capabilities behavior by debugfs
For example about kmalloc failures:
/debug/failslab/probability
specifies how often it should fail in percent.
/debug/failslab/interval
specifies the interval of failures.
/debug/failslab/times
specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
/debug/failslab/space
specifies the size of free space where memory can be allocated
safely in bytes.
5. see what really happens.
The idea is taken from failmalloc (http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc/).
Andrew Morton gave me interesting suggestions.
--
next reply other threads:[~2006-08-23 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 11:32 Akinobu Mita [this message]
2006-08-23 11:32 ` [patch 1/5] fail-injection library Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23 12:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 11:32 ` [patch 2/5] fail-injection capability for kmalloc Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23 11:32 ` [patch 3/5] fail-injection capability for alloc_pages() Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23 11:32 ` [patch 4/5] fail-injection capability for disk IO Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23 12:03 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-23 17:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-23 18:01 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-23 18:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-08-23 18:26 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-23 18:22 ` Hans Reiser
2006-08-23 12:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 12:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-08-23 19:34 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-08-23 19:42 ` Ric Wheeler
2006-08-23 11:32 ` [patch 5/5] debugfs entries for configuration Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23 12:06 ` [patch 0/5] RFC: fault-injection capabilities Andi Kleen
2006-08-23 14:18 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-24 18:41 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060823113243.210352005@localhost.localdomain \
--to=mita@miraclelinux.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=okuji@enbug.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox