[PATCH] fault-injection capability for disk IO
This patch provides fault-injection capability for disk IO. Boot option: fail_make_request=<probability>,<interval>,<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 disk IO can be issued safely in bytes. <times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most. Debugfs: /debug/fail_make_request/interval /debug/fail_make_request/probability /debug/fail_make_request/specifies /debug/fail_make_request/times Example: fail_make_request=10,100,0,-1 echo 1 > /sys/blocks/hda/hda1/make-it-fail generic_make_request() on /dev/hda1 fails once per 10 times. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> 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>
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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct hd_struct {
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struct kobject *holder_dir;
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unsigned ios[2], sectors[2]; /* READs and WRITEs */
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int policy, partno;
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#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
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int make_it_fail;
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#endif
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};
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#define GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE 1
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@@ -90,6 +93,7 @@ struct hd_struct {
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#define GENHD_FL_CD 8
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#define GENHD_FL_UP 16
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#define GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO 32
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#define GENHD_FL_FAIL 64
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struct disk_stats {
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unsigned long sectors[2]; /* READs and WRITEs */
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