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Message-Id: <8AA783E6-2640-4533-A085-129F636A448F@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:31:34 -0400
From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
To: Josh Triplett <josht@...ibm.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <mita@...aclelinux.com>, 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 Aug 31, 2006, at 13:29:20, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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?
It shouldn't; these are all failures that could quite possibly happen
during normal operation even without this enabled, they're just a few
orders of magnitude less likely (in most situations).
Cheers,
Kyle moffett
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