Re: [PATCH] docs: fault-injection: document cache-filter feature for failslab

Jonathan Corbet
2024-08-07T18:54:34Z

Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> writes:

> The failslab fault injection mechanism has an undocumented capability
> that provides significant utility in testing and debugging. This feature,
> introduced in commit 4c13dd3b48fcb ("failslab: add ability to filter slab
> caches"), allows for targeted error injection into specific slab caches.
>
> However, it was inadvertently left undocumented at the time of its
> implementation.
>
> Add documentation for the cache-filter feature in the failslab mode
> description. Also, providing a practical example demonstrating how to
> use cache-filter to inject failures specifically when allocating socket
> buffers (skbs).
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
> ---
> .../fault-injection/fault-injection.rst | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

I've applied this, thanks.

It seems to me that the fault-injection docs should really move under
dev-tools; does anybody object to that?

Thanks,

jon