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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt index ba4be8b77093..4cf1a2a6bd72 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt @@ -240,3 +240,30 @@ trap "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT echo "Injecting errors into the module $module... (interrupt to stop)" sleep 1000000 +Tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc +---------------------------------------------------- +In order to make it easier to accomplish the tasks mentioned above, we can use +tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh. Please run a command +"./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --help" for more information and +see the following examples. + +Examples: + +Run a command "make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests" with injecting slab +allocation failure. + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to specify 100 times failures at most instead of one time +at most by default. + + # ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests + +Same as above except to inject page allocation failure instead of slab +allocation failure. + + # env FAILCMD_TYPE=fail_page_alloc \ + ./tools/testing/fault-injection/failcmd.sh --times=100 \ + -- make -C tools/testing/selftests/ run_tests |