linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7] fault-injection capability for alloc

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Message-ID: <20061013175116.GC29079@localhost>
Date:	Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:51:16 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.de, Don Mullis <dwm@...r.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()

On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:40:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> What I found was a reasonable fix for this problem was to limit the
> failures to those requests which did not have __GFP_HIGHMEM set.  That way,
> userspace allocations work, but kernel-internal allocations are subject to
> failures.

This is what I want especally when I ran the script in fault-inject.txt.
This would be quite useful.

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