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author | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-27 22:15:57 (GMT) |
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committer | Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> | 2010-10-27 22:15:57 (GMT) |
commit | b74b953b998bcc2db91b694446f3a2619ec32de6 (patch) | |
tree | 6ce24caabd730f6ae9287ed0676ec32e6ff31e9d /Documentation/fault-injection | |
parent | abb438526201c6a79949ad45375c051b6681c253 (diff) | |
parent | f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-b74b953b998bcc2db91b694446f3a2619ec32de6.tar.xz |
Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/misc
Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c
(commit eda603f).
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/fault-injection')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt | 38 |
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt index 0793056..7be15e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt @@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ o provide a way to configure fault attributes failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way. Helper functions: - init_fault_attr_entries(entries, attr, name); - void cleanup_fault_attr_entries(entries); + init_fault_attr_dentries(entries, attr, name); + void cleanup_fault_attr_dentries(entries); - module parameters diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a9d3d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +The lkdtm module provides an interface to crash or injure the kernel at +predefined crashpoints to evaluate the reliability of crash dumps obtained +using different dumping solutions. The module uses KPROBEs to instrument +crashing points, but can also crash the kernel directly without KRPOBE +support. + + +You can provide the way either through module arguments when inserting +the module, or through a debugfs interface. + +Usage: insmod lkdtm.ko [recur_count={>0}] cpoint_name=<> cpoint_type=<> + [cpoint_count={>0}] + + recur_count : Recursion level for the stack overflow test. Default is 10. + + cpoint_name : Crash point where the kernel is to be crashed. It can be + one of INT_HARDWARE_ENTRY, INT_HW_IRQ_EN, INT_TASKLET_ENTRY, + FS_DEVRW, MEM_SWAPOUT, TIMERADD, SCSI_DISPATCH_CMD, + IDE_CORE_CP, DIRECT + + cpoint_type : Indicates the action to be taken on hitting the crash point. + It can be one of PANIC, BUG, EXCEPTION, LOOP, OVERFLOW, + CORRUPT_STACK, UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE, OVERWRITE_ALLOCATION, + WRITE_AFTER_FREE, + + cpoint_count : Indicates the number of times the crash point is to be hit + to trigger an action. The default is 10. + +You can also induce failures by mounting debugfs and writing the type to +<mountpoint>/provoke-crash/<crashpoint>. E.g., + + mount -t debugfs debugfs /mnt + echo EXCEPTION > /mnt/provoke-crash/INT_HARDWARE_ENTRY + + +A special file is `DIRECT' which will induce the crash directly without +KPROBE instrumentation. This mode is the only one available when the module +is built on a kernel without KPROBEs support. |