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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip 0/2] futex: Fault/error injection capabilities
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Ingo, any thoughts about this?

Thanks.

On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 23:26 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been wanting this for a while to improve overall futex
> testing. I must say that I checked rather late when I was
> nearly finished with patch 2 if something similar for futexes
> had already been proposed. Sure enough, in 2009 this was discussed[1].
>
> Coincidently, I also took the natural approach of making use of
> our fault-injection machinery. I have no idea if perf nowadays does
> such things, and if it does not, I honestly don't have the bandwidth
> to do it Ingo's preferred way -- when there is nothing wrong with
> this approach, imho (0 overhead). Anyway, here's a working patch.
>
> Patch 1 is merely a trivial add-on.
>
> [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/364742/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Davidlohr Bueso (2):
> futex: Enhance comments in futex_lock_pi() for blocking paths
> futex: Fault/error injection capabilities
>
> Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt | 11 +++
> kernel/futex.c | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 ++
> 3 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>




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