[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>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh b/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9abac34633b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Usage: failmodule <failname> <modulename> [stacktrace-depth]
+#
+#       <failname>: "failslab", "fail_alloc_page", or "fail_make_request"
+#
+#       <modulename>: module name that you want to inject faults.
+#
+#       [stacktrace-depth]: the maximum number of stacktrace walking allowed
+#
+
+STACKTRACE_DEPTH=5
+if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
+        STACKTRACE_DEPTH=$3
+fi
+
+if [ ! -d /debug/$1 ]; then
+        echo "Fault-injection $1 does not exist" >&2
+        exit 1
+fi
+if [ ! -d /sys/module/$2 ]; then
+        echo "Module $2 does not exist" >&2
+        exit 1
+fi
+
+# Disable any fault injection
+echo 0 > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth
+
+echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.text` > /debug/$1/address-start
+echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.exit.text` > /debug/$1/address-end
+echo $STACKTRACE_DEPTH > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth