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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2023-03-27 23:37:33 +0900
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2023-04-13 07:38:55 -0600
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block: null_blk: make fault-injection dynamically configurable per device
The null_blk driver has multiple driver-specific fault injection mechanisms. Each fault injection configuration can only be specified by a module parameter and cannot be reconfigured without reloading the driver. Also, each configuration is common to all devices and is initialized every time a new device is added. This change adds the following subdirectories for each null_blk device. /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/timeout_inject /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/requeue_inject /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/init_hctx_fault_inject Each fault injection attribute can be dynamically set per device by a corresponding file in these directories. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230327143733.14599-3-akinobu.mita@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ Available fault injection capabilities
status code is NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry. The status code and
retry flag can be set via the debugfs.
+- Null test block driver fault injection
+
+ inject IO timeouts by setting config items under
+ /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/timeout_inject,
+ inject requeue requests by setting config items under
+ /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/requeue_inject, and
+ inject init_hctx() errors by setting config items under
+ /sys/kernel/config/nullb/<disk>/init_hctx_fault_inject.
Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior
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