[PATCH] fault-injection capability for kmalloc
authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:39:44 +0000 (02:39 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:29:02 +0000 (08:29 -0800)
commit8a8b6502fb669c3a0638a08955442814cedc86b1
tree2e49652f904eb821f2fa7ae8cab0dd9b756772d9
parent6ff1cb355e628f8fc55fa2d01e269e5e1bbc2fe9
[PATCH] fault-injection capability for kmalloc

This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc.

Boot option:

failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>

<interval> -- specifies the interval of failures.

<probability> -- specifies how often it should fail in percent.

<space> -- specifies the size of free space where memory can be
   allocated safely in bytes.

<times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most.

Debugfs:

/debug/failslab/interval
/debug/failslab/probability
/debug/failslab/specifies
/debug/failslab/times
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait

Example:

failslab=10,100,0,-1

slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
lib/Kconfig.debug
mm/slab.c