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SubjectRe: [patch 3/6] fault-injection capability for alloc_pages()
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 12:25:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I still think this will need some better filters to be useful. At least
> a optional uid filter perhaps (make sure to handle the interrupt case
> correctly, interrupts don't belong to the uid) , and perhaps an option to only
> fail GFP_ATOMIC.

I wrote process filter. Please patch 6/6. But I forgot to ignore
in_interrupt() case.

> With arbitary failing the system will just be unusable, right? Or would
> you run some system you use this way? @)
>
> Another possibility would be to look up __builtin_return_address(0) in
> the module table and allow failing only for a specific module.

That will be useful. Thanks.

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