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From: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ak@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Subject: [patch 0/8] fault-injection capabilities (v3)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:20:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060914102012.251231177@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

Changes from last version

- add stacktrace filter
- drop process-filter from boot-time setup
- build fixes from Don Mullis
- add documentation and some scripts

---

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_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUGFS)

2. build and boot with this kernel

3. modprobe fault-inject-debugfs

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.

/debug/failslab/process-filter

	specifies whether process filter is enabled or not.
	it allows failing only permitted processes by /proc/<pid>/make-it-fail

/debug/failslab/stacktrace-depth

	specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walking allowed.
	a value '0' means stacktrace filter is disabled.

/debug/failslab/address-start
/debug/failslab/address-end

	specifies the range of virtual address.
	it allows failing only if the stacktrace hits in this range.

5. see what really happens.


             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-14 10:20 Akinobu Mita [this message]
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 1/8] documentation and scripts Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:50   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  9:01     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 2/8] fault-injection capabilities infrastructure Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:50   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  9:03     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 3/8] fault-injection capability for kmalloc Akinobu Mita
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 4/8] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages() Akinobu Mita
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 5/8] fault-injection capability for disk IO Akinobu Mita
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 6/8] debugfs entries for configuration Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:52   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 7/8] process filtering for fault-injection capabilities Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:54   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  9:05     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19 17:38       ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  5:55   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-14 10:20 ` [patch 8/8] stacktrace " Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:56   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  9:08     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19  5:57   ` Don Mullis
2006-09-19  9:09     ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-19 17:35       ` Don Mullis
2006-09-20 13:39         ` Akinobu Mita
2006-09-20 20:02           ` Don Mullis

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