Re: [PATCH v2 16/20] IB/hfi1: Add receive fault injection feature

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On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 10:26:17AM -0800, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> From: Don Hiatt <don.hiatt@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add fault injection capability:
>   - Drop packets unconditionally (fault_by_packet)
>   - Drop packets based on opcode (fault_by_opcode)
>
> This feature reacts to the global FAULT_INJECTION
> config flag.
>
> The faulting traces have been added:
>   - misc/fault_opcode
>   - misc/fault_packet
>
> See 'Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt'
> for details.
>
> Examples:
>   - Dropping packets by opcode:
>     /sys/kernel/debug/hfi1/hfi1_X/fault_opcode
> 	# Enable fault
> 	echo Y > fault_by_opcode
> 	# Setprobability of dropping (0-100%)
> 	# echo 25 > probability
> 	# Set opcode
> 	echo 0x64 > opcode
> 	# Number of times to fault
> 	echo 3 > times
> 	# An optional mask allows you to fault
> 	# a range of opcodes
> 	echo 0xf0 > mask
>     /sys/kernel/debug/hfi1/hfi1_X/fault_stats
>     contains a value in parentheses to indicate
>     number of each opcode dropped.
>
>   - Dropping packets unconditionally
>     /sys/kernel/debug/hfi1/hfi1_X/fault_packet
> 	# Enable fault
> 	echo Y > fault_by_packet
>     /sys/kernel/debug/hfi1/hfi1_X/fault_packet/fault_stats
>     contains the number of packets dropped.

It will be so nice to have this functionality extended to objects and
placed in IB/core. For example, VNIC and IPoIB will be able to use
faults by packet, while all other drivers and ULPs will use faults by
objects.

Does it make sense?

Thanks

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