Message-Id: <20060823113243.210352005@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:32:43 +0900
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
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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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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