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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fdf2dc433 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/notifier-error-inject.rst @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +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/cpu-on-off-test.sh + * tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/mem-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. |