linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/6] RFC: fault-injection capabilities (v2)

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Message-Id: <1157045360.4366.4.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:29:20 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josht@...ibm.com>
To:	Akinobu Mita <mita@...aclelinux.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de, akpm@...l.org,
	okuji@...ug.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] RFC: fault-injection capabilities (v2)

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 19:07 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch set provides some fault-injection capabilities.
> 
> - kmalloc failures
> 
> - alloc_pages() failures
> 
> - disk IO errors
> 
> We can see what really happens if those failures happen.

Looks very useful for testing error paths; nice work.

Should this perhaps taint the kernel when used?

- Josh Triplett


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