failslab: add ability to filter slab caches

This patch allow to inject faults only for specific slabs.
In order to preserve default behavior cache filter is off by
default (all caches are faulty).

One may define specific set of slabs like this:
# mark skbuff_head_cache as faulty
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/slab/skbuff_head_cache/failslab
# Turn on cache filter (off by default)
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/cache-filter
# Turn on fault injection
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/times
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/probability

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
This commit is contained in:
Dmitry Monakhov
2010-02-26 09:36:12 +03:00
committed by Pekka Enberg
parent 60b341b778
commit 4c13dd3b48
6 changed files with 52 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ static inline void cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(struct fault_attr *attr)
#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION */
#ifdef CONFIG_FAILSLAB
extern bool should_failslab(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags);
extern bool should_failslab(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags, unsigned long flags);
#else
static inline bool should_failslab(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags)
static inline bool should_failslab(size_t size, gfp_t gfpflags,
unsigned long flags)
{
return false;
}