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DateTue, 28 Nov 2006 13:37:54 -0800
FromAndrew Morton <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2 -mm] fault-injection: safer defaults, trivial optimization, cleanup
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:44:26 -0800
Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net> wrote:

> Set /debug/fail*/* defaults supposed most likely to please a new user.
> Clamp /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth to MAX_STACK_TRACE_DEPTH.
> 
> In should_fail(), move stack-unwinding test past cheaper tests (performance
> gain not quantified).  Simplify logic; eliminate goto.
> Use bool/true/false consistently.
> 
> Correct and disambiguate documentation.

We'd prefer one-patch-per-concept, please. This all sounds like about
six patches.

We _could_ merge this patch as-is, but it means that when this stuff
finally hits mainline it would go in as a nice sequence of logical patches,
followed by a random thing which is splattered all over all the preceding
patches.
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