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+Fault injection capabilities infrastructure
+===========================================
+
+See also drivers/md/md-faulty.c and "every_nth" module option for scsi_debug.
+
+
+Available fault injection capabilities
+--------------------------------------
+
+o failslab
+
+ injects slab allocation failures. (kmalloc(), kmem_cache_alloc(), ...)
+
+o fail_page_alloc
+
+ injects page allocation failures. (alloc_pages(), get_free_pages(), ...)
+
+o fail_futex
+
+ injects futex deadlock and uaddr fault errors.
+
+o fail_make_request
+
+ injects disk IO errors on devices permitted by setting
+ /sys/block/<device>/make-it-fail or
+ /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (generic_make_request())
+
+o fail_mmc_request
+
+ injects MMC data errors on devices permitted by setting
+ debugfs entries under /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/fail_mmc_request
+
+o fail_function
+
+ injects error return on specific functions, which are marked by
+ ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() macro, by setting debugfs entries
+ under /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function. No boot option supported.
+
+o NVMe fault injection
+
+ inject NVMe status code and retry flag on devices permitted by setting
+ debugfs entries under /sys/kernel/debug/nvme*/fault_inject. The default
+ status code is NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry. The status code and
+ retry flag can be set via the debugfs.
+
+
+Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+o debugfs entries
+
+fault-inject-debugfs kernel module provides some debugfs entries for runtime
+configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/probability:
+
+ likelihood of failure injection, in percent.
+ Format: <percent>
+
+ Note that one-failure-per-hundred is a very high error rate
+ for some testcases. Consider setting probability=100 and configure
+ /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/interval for such testcases.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/interval:
+
+ specifies the interval between failures, for calls to
+ should_fail() that pass all the other tests.
+
+ Note that if you enable this, by setting interval>1, you will
+ probably want to set probability=100.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/times:
+
+ specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
+ A value of -1 means "no limit".
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/space:
+
+ specifies an initial resource "budget", decremented by "size"
+ on each call to should_fail(,size). Failure injection is
+ suppressed until "space" reaches zero.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/verbose
+
+ Format: { 0 | 1 | 2 }
+ specifies the verbosity of the messages when failure is
+ injected. '0' means no messages; '1' will print only a single
+ log line per failure; '2' will print a call trace too -- useful
+ to debug the problems revealed by fault injection.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/task-filter:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+ A value of 'N' disables filtering by process (default).
+ Any positive value limits failures to only processes indicated by
+ /proc/<pid>/make-it-fail==1.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/require-start:
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/require-end:
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/reject-start:
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/reject-end:
+
+ specifies the range of virtual addresses tested during
+ stacktrace walking. Failure is injected only if some caller
+ in the walked stacktrace lies within the required range, and
+ none lies within the rejected range.
+ Default required range is [0,ULONG_MAX) (whole of virtual address space).
+ Default rejected range is [0,0).
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth:
+
+ specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walked during search
+ for a caller within [require-start,require-end) OR
+ [reject-start,reject-end).
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' won't inject failures into
+ highmem/user allocations.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait:
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will inject failures
+ only into non-sleep allocations (GFP_ATOMIC allocations).
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_page_alloc/min-order:
+
+ specifies the minimum page allocation order to be injected
+ failures.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_futex/ignore-private:
+
+ Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+ default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will disable failure injections
+ when dealing with private (address space) futexes.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/inject:
+
+ Format: { 'function-name' | '!function-name' | '' }
+ specifies the target function of error injection by name.
+ If the function name leads '!' prefix, given function is
+ removed from injection list. If nothing specified ('')
+ injection list is cleared.
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/injectable:
+
+ (read only) shows error injectable functions and what type of
+ error values can be specified. The error type will be one of
+ below;
+ - NULL: retval must be 0.
+ - ERRNO: retval must be -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096).
+ - ERR_NULL: retval must be 0 or -1 to -MAX_ERRNO (-4096).
+
+- /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/<functiuon-name>/retval:
+
+ specifies the "error" return value to inject to the given
+ function for given function. This will be created when
+ user specifies new injection entry.
+
+o Boot option
+
+In order to inject faults while debugfs is not available (early boot time),
+use the boot option:
+
+ failslab=
+ fail_page_alloc=
+ fail_make_request=
+ fail_futex=
+ mmc_core.fail_request=<interval>,<probability>,<space>,<times>
+
+o proc entries
+
+- /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
+ that the fault setup with a previous write to this file was injected.
+ A positive integer N indicates that the fault wasn't yet injected.
+ Note that this file enables all types of faults (slab, futex, etc).
+ This setting takes precedence over all other generic debugfs settings
+ like probability, interval, times, etc. But per-capability settings
+ (e.g. fail_futex/ignore-private) take precedence over it.
+
+ This feature is intended for systematic testing of faults in a single
+ system call. See an example below.
+
+How to add new fault injection capability
+-----------------------------------------
+
+o #include <linux/fault-inject.h>
+
+o define the fault attributes
+
+ DECLARE_FAULT_INJECTION(name);
+
+ Please see the definition of struct fault_attr in fault-inject.h
+ for details.
+
+o provide a way to configure fault attributes
+
+- boot option
+
+ If you need to enable the fault injection capability from boot time, you can
+ provide boot option to configure it. There is a helper function for it:
+
+ setup_fault_attr(attr, str);
+
+- debugfs entries
+
+ failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way.
+ Helper functions:
+
+ fault_create_debugfs_attr(name, parent, attr);
+
+- module parameters
+
+ If the scope of the fault injection capability is limited to a
+ single kernel module, it is better to provide module parameters to
+ configure the fault attributes.
+
+o add a hook to insert failures
+
+ Upon should_fail() returning true, client code should inject a failure.
+
+ should_fail(attr, size);
+
+Application Examples
+--------------------
+
+o Inject slab allocation failures into module init/exit code
+
+#!/bin/bash
+
+FAILTYPE=failslab
+echo Y > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
+echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
+echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
+echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
+echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
+
+faulty_system()
+{
+ bash -c "echo 1 > /proc/self/make-it-fail && exec $*"
+}
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]
+then
+ echo "Usage: $0 modulename [ modulename ... ]"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+for m in $*
+do
+ echo inserting $m...
+ faulty_system modprobe $m
+
+ echo removing $m...
+ faulty_system modprobe -r $m
+done
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+o Inject page allocation failures only for a specific module
+
+#!/bin/bash
+
+FAILTYPE=fail_page_alloc
+module=$1
+
+if [ -z $module ]
+then
+ echo "Usage: $0 <modulename>"
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+modprobe $module
+
+if [ ! -d /sys/module/$module/sections ]
+then
+ echo Module $module is not loaded
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+cat /sys/module/$module/sections/.text > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/require-start
+cat /sys/module/$module/sections/.data > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/require-end
+
+echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
+echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
+echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
+echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
+echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-wait
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/ignore-gfp-highmem
+echo 10 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/stacktrace-depth
+
+trap "echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability" SIGINT SIGTERM EXIT
+
+echo "Injecting errors into the module $module... (interrupt to stop)"
+sleep 1000000
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+o Inject open_ctree error while btrfs mount
+
+#!/bin/bash
+
+rm -f testfile.img
+dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.img bs=1M seek=1000 count=1
+DEVICE=$(losetup --show -f testfile.img)
+mkfs.btrfs -f $DEVICE
+mkdir -p tmpmnt
+
+FAILTYPE=fail_function
+FAILFUNC=open_ctree
+echo $FAILFUNC > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject
+echo -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/$FAILFUNC/retval
+echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/task-filter
+echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/probability
+echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/interval
+echo -1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/times
+echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/space
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/verbose
+
+mount -t btrfs $DEVICE tmpmnt
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]
+then
+ echo "SUCCESS!"
+else
+ echo "FAILED!"
+ umount tmpmnt
+fi
+
+echo > /sys/kernel/debug/$FAILTYPE/inject
+
+rmdir tmpmnt
+losetup -d $DEVICE
+rm testfile.img
+
+
+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
+
+Systematic faults using fail-nth
+---------------------------------
+
+The following code systematically faults 0-th, 1-st, 2-nd and so on
+capabilities in the socketpair() system call.
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+
+int main()
+{
+ int i, err, res, fail_nth, fds[2];
+ char buf[128];
+
+ system("echo N > /sys/kernel/debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait");
+ sprintf(buf, "/proc/self/task/%ld/fail-nth", syscall(SYS_gettid));
+ fail_nth = open(buf, O_RDWR);
+ for (i = 1;; i++) {
+ sprintf(buf, "%d", i);
+ write(fail_nth, buf, strlen(buf));
+ res = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
+ err = errno;
+ pread(fail_nth, buf, sizeof(buf), 0);
+ if (res == 0) {
+ close(fds[0]);
+ close(fds[1]);
+ }
+ printf("%d-th fault %c: res=%d/%d\n", i, atoi(buf) ? 'N' : 'Y',
+ res, err);
+ if (atoi(buf))
+ break;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+An example output:
+
+1-th fault Y: res=-1/23
+2-th fault Y: res=-1/23
+3-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+4-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+5-th fault Y: res=-1/23
+6-th fault Y: res=-1/23
+7-th fault Y: res=-1/23
+8-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+9-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+10-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+11-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+12-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+13-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+14-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+15-th fault Y: res=-1/12
+16-th fault N: res=0/12
diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.txt
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+Notifier error injection
+========================
+
+Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
+specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error handling of
+notifier call chain failures which is rarely executed. There are kernel
+modules that can be used to test the following notifiers.
+
+ * PM notifier
+ * Memory hotplug notifier
+ * powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier
+ * Netdevice notifier
+
+PM notifier error injection module
+----------------------------------
+This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
+/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/actions/<notifier event>/error
+
+Possible PM notifier events to be failed are:
+
+ * PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE
+ * PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE
+ * PM_RESTORE_PREPARE
+
+Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)
+
+ # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
+ # echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
+ # echo mem > /sys/power/state
+ bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
+
+Memory hotplug notifier error injection module
+----------------------------------------------
+This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
+/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory/actions/<notifier event>/error
+
+Possible memory notifier events to be failed are:
+
+ * MEM_GOING_ONLINE
+ * MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
+
+Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)
+
+ # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
+ # echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
+ # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+ bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
+
+powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
+--------------------------------------------------------
+This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
+/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pSeries-reconfig/actions/<notifier event>/error
+
+Possible pSeries reconfig notifier events to be failed are:
+
+ * PSERIES_RECONFIG_ADD
+ * PSERIES_RECONFIG_REMOVE
+ * PSERIES_DRCONF_MEM_ADD
+ * PSERIES_DRCONF_MEM_REMOVE
+
+Netdevice notifier error injection module
+----------------------------------------------
+This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
+/sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev/actions/<notifier event>/error
+
+Netdevice notifier events which can be failed are:
+
+ * NETDEV_REGISTER
+ * NETDEV_CHANGEMTU
+ * NETDEV_CHANGENAME
+ * NETDEV_PRE_UP
+ * NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE
+ * NETDEV_POST_INIT
+ * NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU
+ * NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER
+ * NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER
+
+Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 == -EINVAL)
+
+ # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
+ # echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
+ # ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
+ RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
+
+For more usage examples
+-----------------------
+There are tools/testing/selftests using the notifier error injection features
+for CPU and memory notifiers.
+
+ * tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug/on-off-test.sh
+ * tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/on-off-test.sh
+
+These scripts first do simple online and offline tests and then do fault
+injection tests if notifier error injection module is available.
diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/nvme-fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/nvme-fault-injection.txt
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+NVMe Fault Injection
+====================
+Linux's fault injection framework provides a systematic way to support
+error injection via debugfs in the /sys/kernel/debug directory. When
+enabled, the default NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry will be
+injected into the nvme_end_request. Users can change the default status
+code and no retry flag via the debugfs. The list of Generic Command
+Status can be found in include/linux/nvme.h
+
+Following examples show how to inject an error into the nvme.
+
+First, enable CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS kernel config,
+recompile the kernel. After booting up the kernel, do the
+following.
+
+Example 1: Inject default status code with no retry
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/times
+echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/probability
+cp a.file /mnt
+
+Expected Result:
+
+cp: cannot stat ‘/mnt/a.file’: Input/output error
+
+Message from dmesg:
+
+FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
+name fault_inject, interval 1, probability 100, space 0, times 1
+CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8+ #2
+Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox,
+BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
+Call Trace:
+ <IRQ>
+ dump_stack+0x5c/0x7d
+ should_fail+0x148/0x170
+ nvme_should_fail+0x2f/0x50 [nvme_core]
+ nvme_process_cq+0xe7/0x1d0 [nvme]
+ nvme_irq+0x1e/0x40 [nvme]
+ __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x3a/0x190
+ handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x70
+ handle_irq_event+0x36/0x60
+ handle_fasteoi_irq+0x78/0x120
+ handle_irq+0xa7/0x130
+ ? tick_irq_enter+0xa8/0xc0
+ do_IRQ+0x43/0xc0
+ common_interrupt+0xa2/0xa2
+ </IRQ>
+RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x2/0x10
+RSP: 0018:ffffffff82003e90 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffdd
+RAX: ffffffff817a10c0 RBX: ffffffff82012480 RCX: 0000000000000000
+RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
+RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000008e38ce64 R09: 0000000000000000
+R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82012480
+R13: ffffffff82012480 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
+ ? __sched_text_end+0x4/0x4
+ default_idle+0x18/0xf0
+ do_idle+0x150/0x1d0
+ cpu_startup_entry+0x6f/0x80
+ start_kernel+0x4c4/0x4e4
+ ? set_init_arg+0x55/0x55
+ secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
+ print_req_error: I/O error, dev nvme0n1, sector 9240
+EXT4-fs error (device nvme0n1): ext4_find_entry:1436:
+inode #2: comm cp: reading directory lblock 0
+
+Example 2: Inject default status code with retry
+------------------------------------------------
+
+mount /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/times
+echo 100 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/probability
+echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/status
+echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/nvme0n1/fault_inject/dont_retry
+
+cp a.file /mnt
+
+Expected Result:
+
+command success without error
+
+Message from dmesg:
+
+FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
+name fault_inject, interval 1, probability 100, space 0, times 1
+CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc8+ #4
+Hardware name: innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox, BIOS VirtualBox 12/01/2006
+Call Trace:
+ <IRQ>
+ dump_stack+0x5c/0x7d
+ should_fail+0x148/0x170
+ nvme_should_fail+0x30/0x60 [nvme_core]
+ nvme_loop_queue_response+0x84/0x110 [nvme_loop]
+ nvmet_req_complete+0x11/0x40 [nvmet]
+ nvmet_bio_done+0x28/0x40 [nvmet]
+ blk_update_request+0xb0/0x310
+ blk_mq_end_request+0x18/0x60
+ flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x3d/0xf0
+ smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x2c/0xc0
+ call_function_single_interrupt+0xa2/0xb0
+ </IRQ>
+RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x2/0x10
+RSP: 0018:ffffc9000068bec0 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff04
+RAX: ffffffff817a10c0 RBX: ffff88011a3c9680 RCX: 0000000000000000
+RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
+RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 000000008e38c131 R09: 0000000000000000
+R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88011a3c9680
+R13: ffff88011a3c9680 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
+ ? __sched_text_end+0x4/0x4
+ default_idle+0x18/0xf0
+ do_idle+0x150/0x1d0
+ cpu_startup_entry+0x6f/0x80
+ start_secondary+0x187/0x1e0
+ secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0
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+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.