[PATCH] fault injection: documentation and scripts
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 if you want to configure them via debugfs,
enable CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS.
2. Build and boot with this kernel
3. Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior by boot option or debugfs
- Boot option
failslab=
fail_page_alloc=
fail_make_request=
- Debugfs
/debug/failslab/*
/debug/fail_page_alloc/*
/debug/fail_make_request/*
Please refer to the Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
for details.
4. See what really happens.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b79bcdf..d8323b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -548,6 +548,13 @@
eurwdt= [HW,WDT] Eurotech CPU-1220/1410 onboard watchdog.
Format: <io>[,<irq>]
+ failslab=
+ fail_page_alloc=
+ fail_make_request=[KNL]
+ General fault injection mechanism.
+ Format: <interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
+ See also /Documentation/fault-injection/.
+
fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/fd_mcs.c.