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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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