From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/6] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:45:40 +0200
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On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:35, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:25:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > I still think this will need some better filters to be useful. At least
> > a optional uid filter perhaps (make sure to handle the interrupt case
> > correctly, interrupts don't belong to the uid) , and perhaps an option to only 
> > fail GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> I wrote process filter.

Oops sorry. I overlooked that.

> Please patch 6/6. But I forgot to ignore 
> in_interrupt() case.

Ok fine then.

> 
> > With arbitary failing the system will just be unusable, right? Or would
> > you run some system you use this way? @)
> > 
> > Another possibility would be to look up __builtin_return_address(0) in 
> > the module table and allow failing only for a specific module.
> 
> That will be useful. Thanks.

It might unfortunately need architecture specific code. But I guess a i386
only implementation as start would be useful enough.

-Andi

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