On Wed, May 27 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:05:47 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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