fault-injection-add-tool-to-run-command-with-failslab-or-fail_page_alloc.patch in -mm tree adds tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh to make it easier to inject slab/page allocation failures by fault injection.
This adds the introduction to Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.m...@gmail.com> --- Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt index dc77948..832fc4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt @@ -241,3 +241,30 @@ trap "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT echo "Injecting errors into the module $module... (interrupt to stop)" sleep 1000000 +Tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc +---------------------------------------------------- +In order to make it easier to accomplish the tasks mentioned above, we can use +tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh. Please run a command +"./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --help" for more information and +see the following examples. + +Examples: + +Run a command "make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests" with injecting slab +allocation failure. + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to specify 100 times failures at most instead of one time +at most by default. + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to inject page allocation failure instead of slab +allocation failure. + + # env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \ + ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
