[patch 0/5] RFC: fault-injection capabilities

Akinobu Mita
2006-08-23T11:35:39Z

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.

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