linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fault-inject: support systematic fault injection

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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:41:06 +0900
From:   Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fault-inject: support systematic fault injection

2017-03-28 22:01 GMT+09:00 Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>:
> Add /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth file that allows failing
> 0-th, 1-st, 2-nd and so on calls systematically.
> Excerpt from the added documentation:
>
> ===
> Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the current task fail
> (N is 0-based). Read from this file returns a single char 'Y' or 'N'
> that says if the fault setup with a previous write to this file was
> injected or not, and disables the fault if it wasn't yet injected.
> Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc).
> This setting takes precedence over all other generic settings like
> probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings
> (e.g. fail_futex/ignore-private) take precedence over it.
> This feature is intended for systematic testing of faults in a single
> system call. See an example below.
> ===

This asymmetric read/write interface looks a bit odd. (write a string
representation of integer, but read Y or N).

How about just return the string representation of task->fail_nth for
read and let the user space tools check if it is zero or not?