linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] notifier error injection

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Message-ID: <20110731173944.GA1620@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:39:44 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] notifier error injection

Hi!

> This provides kernel modules that can be used to test the error handling
> of notifier call chain failures by injecting artifical errors to the
> following notifier chain callbacks.
> 
>  * CPU notifier
>  * PM notifier
>  * memory hotplug notifier
>  * powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier
...

>  11 files changed, 680 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Do we really need this debugging code in mainline? How many bugs did
it find?

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