From: Josh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, okuji@enbug.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] RFC: fault-injection capabilities (v2)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:29:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157045360.4366.4.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060831100756.866727476@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 19:07 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 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.
Looks very useful for testing error paths; nice work.
Should this perhaps taint the kernel when used?
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-31 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-31 10:07 Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:07 ` [patch 1/6] fault-injection capabilities infrastructure Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-31 10:07 ` [patch 2/6] fault-injection capability for kmalloc Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:07 ` [patch 3/6] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages() Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:25 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-31 10:35 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-31 10:08 ` [patch 4/6] fault-injection capability for disk IO Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:08 ` [patch 5/6] debugfs entries for configuration Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 10:08 ` [patch 6/6] process filtering for fault-injection capabilities Akinobu Mita
2006-08-31 17:29 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2006-08-31 18:31 ` [patch 0/6] RFC: fault-injection capabilities (v2) Kyle Moffett
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