[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>

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index e90b6100a927..47011e2ef3c9 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@
 #include        <linux/nodemask.h>
 #include        <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include        <linux/mutex.h>
+#include        <linux/fault-inject.h>
 #include        <linux/rtmutex.h>
 
 #include        <asm/cacheflush.h>
@@ -3088,12 +3089,88 @@ static void *cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 #define cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(a,b,objp,d) (objp)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAILSLAB
+
+static struct failslab_attr {
+
+        struct fault_attr attr;
+
+        u32 ignore_gfp_wait;
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
+        struct dentry *ignore_gfp_wait_file;
+#endif
+
+} failslab = {
+        .attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
+};
+
+static int __init setup_failslab(char *str)
+{
+        return setup_fault_attr(&failslab.attr, str);
+}
+__setup("failslab=", setup_failslab);
+
+static int should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
+{
+        if (cachep == &cache_cache)
+                return 0;
+        if (flags & __GFP_NOFAIL)
+                return 0;
+        if (failslab.ignore_gfp_wait && (flags & __GFP_WAIT))
+                return 0;
+
+        return should_fail(&failslab.attr, obj_size(cachep));
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
+
+static int __init failslab_debugfs(void)
+{
+        mode_t mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
+        struct dentry *dir;
+        int err;
+
+        err = init_fault_attr_dentries(&failslab.attr, "failslab");
+        if (err)
+                return err;
+        dir = failslab.attr.dentries.dir;
+
+        failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file =
+                debugfs_create_bool("ignore-gfp-wait", mode, dir,
+                                      &failslab.ignore_gfp_wait);
+
+        if (!failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file) {
+                err = -ENOMEM;
+                debugfs_remove(failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file);
+                cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(&failslab.attr);
+        }
+
+        return err;
+}
+
+late_initcall(failslab_debugfs);
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS */
+
+#else /* CONFIG_FAILSLAB */
+
+static inline int should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FAILSLAB */
+
 static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
 {
         void *objp;
         struct array_cache *ac;
 
         check_irq_off();
+
+        if (should_failslab(cachep, flags))
+                return NULL;
+
         ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
         if (likely(ac->avail)) {
                 STATS_INC_ALLOCHIT(cachep);