The patch titled Subject: fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth fail-nth interface is only created in /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/. This change also adds it in /proc/<pid>/. This makes shell based tool a bit simpler. $ bash -c "builtin echo 100 > /proc/self/fail-nth && exec ls /" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-6-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 3 ++- fs/proc/base.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt~fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt~fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth +++ a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt @@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ use the boot option: o proc entries -- /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth: +- /proc/<pid>/fail-nth: +- /proc/self/task/<tid>/fail-nth: Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the task fail. Read from this file returns a integer value. A value of '0' indicates diff -puN fs/proc/base.c~fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth fs/proc/base.c --- a/fs/proc/base.c~fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2955,6 +2955,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_ #endif #ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations), + REG("fail-nth", 0644, proc_fail_nth_operations), #endif #ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE REG("coredump_filter", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_coredump_filter_operations), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are fault-inject-automatically-detect-the-number-base-for-fail-nth-write-interface.patch fault-inject-parse-as-natural-1-based-value-for-fail-nth-write-interface.patch fault-inject-make-fail-nth-read-write-interface-symmetric.patch fault-inject-simplify-access-check-for-fail-nth.patch fault-inject-add-proc-pid-fail-nth.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html