[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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Akinobu Mita
2006-12-08 02:39:46 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 933e312e73
commit c17bb49517
5 changed files with 109 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct hd_struct {
struct kobject *holder_dir;
unsigned ios[2], sectors[2]; /* READs and WRITEs */
int policy, partno;
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
int make_it_fail;
#endif
};
#define GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE 1
@@ -90,6 +93,7 @@ struct hd_struct {
#define GENHD_FL_CD 8
#define GENHD_FL_UP 16
#define GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO 32
#define GENHD_FL_FAIL 64
struct disk_stats {
unsigned long sectors[2]; /* READs and WRITEs */