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Message-ID: <20090528102034.GY11363@kernel.dk>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:20:35 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: damien.wyart@...e.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, chris.mason@...cle.com,
david@...morbit.com, hch@...radead.org, jack@...e.cz,
yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, richard@....demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v7
On Wed, May 27 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:47 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:
>
> > I ran testing with artificial
> > bdi_work allocation failures to verify the oom path
>
> I bet you didn't use lib/fault-inject.c :(
I didn't, it was a 2-second hack to add a
static int i;
if (!(i++ % 4))
return NULL;
so I didn't look further...
> For tricky pieces of core kernel like this, there's a good case for
> including and permanently maintaining fault injection testing
> capabilities.
I agree.
--
Jens Axboe
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