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Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc
	fallback options
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 22:45:57 +0300
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:36:14PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> People on this list argue "this should be a kernel parameter".

How about making it a writeable attribute, so it's easy to turn on/off
after boot. Then you can keep it deterministic, userspace can play with
the attribute at random if it wants to.

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