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This patch provides fault-injection capability for kmalloc.

Boot option:

failslab=<interval>,<probability>,<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 memory can be
		   allocated safely in bytes.

	<times> -- specifies how many times failures may happen at most.

Debugfs:

/debug/failslab/interval
/debug/failslab/probability
/debug/failslab/specifies
/debug/failslab/times
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem
/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait

Example:

	failslab=10,100,0,-1

slab allocation (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(),..) fails once per 10 times.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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mita authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 8, 2006
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
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specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walked during search
for a caller within [address-start,address-end).

- /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-highmem:
- /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem:

Format: { 0 | 1 }
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echo 100 > /debug/$FAILNAME/interval
echo -1 > /debug/$FAILNAME/times
echo 2 > /debug/$FAILNAME/verbose
echo 1 > /debug/$FAILNAME/ignore-gfp-highmem
echo 1 > /debug/$FAILNAME/ignore-gfp-wait

blacklist()
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions lib/Kconfig.debug
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Expand Up @@ -417,6 +417,13 @@ config LKDTM
config FAULT_INJECTION
bool

config FAILSLAB
bool "Fault-injection capabilitiy for kmalloc"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select FAULT_INJECTION
help
This option provides fault-injection capabilitiy for kmalloc.

config FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
bool "Debugfs entries for fault-injection capabilities"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && SYSFS
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77 changes: 77 additions & 0 deletions mm/slab.c
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#include <linux/nodemask.h>
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
#include <linux/rtmutex.h>

#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
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#define cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(a,b,objp,d) (objp)
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_FAILSLAB

static struct failslab_attr {

struct fault_attr attr;

u32 ignore_gfp_wait;
#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
struct dentry *ignore_gfp_wait_file;
#endif

} failslab = {
.attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
};

static int __init setup_failslab(char *str)
{
return setup_fault_attr(&failslab.attr, str);
}
__setup("failslab=", setup_failslab);

static int should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
{
if (cachep == &cache_cache)
return 0;
if (flags & __GFP_NOFAIL)
return 0;
if (failslab.ignore_gfp_wait && (flags & __GFP_WAIT))
return 0;

return should_fail(&failslab.attr, obj_size(cachep));
}

#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS

static int __init failslab_debugfs(void)
{
mode_t mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
struct dentry *dir;
int err;

err = init_fault_attr_dentries(&failslab.attr, "failslab");
if (err)
return err;
dir = failslab.attr.dentries.dir;

failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file =
debugfs_create_bool("ignore-gfp-wait", mode, dir,
&failslab.ignore_gfp_wait);

if (!failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file) {
err = -ENOMEM;
debugfs_remove(failslab.ignore_gfp_wait_file);
cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(&failslab.attr);
}

return err;
}

late_initcall(failslab_debugfs);

#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS */

#else /* CONFIG_FAILSLAB */

static inline int should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
{
return 0;
}

#endif /* CONFIG_FAILSLAB */

static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
{
void *objp;
struct array_cache *ac;

check_irq_off();

if (should_failslab(cachep, flags))
return NULL;

ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
if (likely(ac->avail)) {
STATS_INC_ALLOCHIT(cachep);
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