linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 -mm] fault-injection: lightweight code-coverage maximizer

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Message-ID: <20061128091811.GA2004@APFDCB5C>
Date:	Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:18:11 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Don Mullis <dwm@...r.net>
Cc:	akpm <akpm@...l.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 -mm] fault-injection: lightweight code-coverage maximizer

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:51:30PM -0800, Don Mullis wrote:
> Allow all non-unique call stacks, as judged by pushed sequence of EIPs,
> to be to be ignored as failure candidates.
> 
> Upon keying in
> 	echo 1 >probability
> 	echo 3 >verbose
> 	echo -1 >times
> a few dozen stacks are printk'ed, then system responsiveness
> recovers to normal.  Similarly, starting a non-trivial program
> will print a few stacks before responsiveness recovers.

What kind of test did you do?

> Intent is to make code-coverage-maximizing test lightweight, perhaps
> light enough to remain enabled during the course of the developer's
> interactive testing of new code.
> 
> Enabled by default. (/debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth > 0)

This doesn't maximize code coverage. It makes fault-injector reject
any failures which have same stacktrace before.

So it should not be default.

> +static bool fail_uniquestack(struct fault_attr *attr)
> +{
> +	u32 oldhash;
> +	u32 newhash;
> +	uint offset = 0;
> +
> +	newhash = unique_stack_p(attr);
> +
> +	for ( oldhash = newhash; oldhash != 0; offset++) {
> +		oldhash = atomic_xchg(
> +			&attr->uniquestack_hash_table[
> +				(newhash+offset)%ARRAY_SIZE(attr->uniquestack_hash_table)],
> +			oldhash);
> +		if (oldhash == newhash)
> +			return false;
> +		if (offset >= ARRAY_SIZE(attr->uniquestack_hash_table)) {
> +			printk(KERN_NOTICE
> +			       "FAULT_INJECTION: table overflow -- "
> +			       "fault injection disabled\n");
> +			return false;
> +		}
> +	}

Updating array in this way is not safe (SMP or interrupt).

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