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[PATCH] fault-injection: Correct, disambiguate, and reformat documentation

Correct, disambiguate, and reformat documentation.

Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don Mullis 18 years ago
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+ 2 - 2
Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh

@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ fi
 # Disable any fault injection
 # Disable any fault injection
 echo 0 > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth
 echo 0 > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth
 
 
-echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.text` > /debug/$1/address-start
-echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.exit.text` > /debug/$1/address-end
+echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.text` > /debug/$1/require-start
+echo `cat /sys/module/$2/sections/.exit.text` > /debug/$1/require-end
 echo $STACKTRACE_DEPTH > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth
 echo $STACKTRACE_DEPTH > /debug/$1/stacktrace-depth

+ 35 - 35
Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ o fail_page_alloc
 
 
 o fail_make_request
 o fail_make_request
 
 
-  injects disk IO errors on permitted devices by
+  injects disk IO errors on devices permitted by setting
   /sys/block/<device>/make-it-fail or
   /sys/block/<device>/make-it-fail or
   /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (generic_make_request())
   /sys/block/<device>/<partition>/make-it-fail. (generic_make_request())
 
 
@@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ o debugfs entries
 fault-inject-debugfs kernel module provides some debugfs entries for runtime
 fault-inject-debugfs kernel module provides some debugfs entries for runtime
 configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
 configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
 
 
-- /debug/*/probability:
+- /debug/fail*/probability:
 
 
 	likelihood of failure injection, in percent.
 	likelihood of failure injection, in percent.
 	Format: <percent>
 	Format: <percent>
 
 
-	Note that one-failure-per-handred is a very high error rate
-	for some testcases. Please set probably=100 and configure
-	/debug/*/interval for such testcases.
+	Note that one-failure-per-hundred is a very high error rate
+	for some testcases.  Consider setting probability=100 and configure
+	/debug/fail*/interval for such testcases.
 
 
-- /debug/*/interval:
+- /debug/fail*/interval:
 
 
 	specifies the interval between failures, for calls to
 	specifies the interval between failures, for calls to
 	should_fail() that pass all the other tests.
 	should_fail() that pass all the other tests.
@@ -46,37 +46,36 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
 	Note that if you enable this, by setting interval>1, you will
 	Note that if you enable this, by setting interval>1, you will
 	probably want to set probability=100.
 	probably want to set probability=100.
 
 
-- /debug/*/times:
+- /debug/fail*/times:
 
 
 	specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
 	specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
 	A value of -1 means "no limit".
 	A value of -1 means "no limit".
 
 
-- /debug/*/space:
+- /debug/fail*/space:
 
 
 	specifies an initial resource "budget", decremented by "size"
 	specifies an initial resource "budget", decremented by "size"
 	on each call to should_fail(,size).  Failure injection is
 	on each call to should_fail(,size).  Failure injection is
 	suppressed until "space" reaches zero.
 	suppressed until "space" reaches zero.
 
 
-- /debug/*/verbose
+- /debug/fail*/verbose
 
 
 	Format: { 0 | 1 | 2 }
 	Format: { 0 | 1 | 2 }
-	specifies the verbosity of the messages when failure is injected.
-	We default to 0 (no extra messages), setting it to '1' will
-	print only to tell failure happened, '2' will print call trace too -
-	it is useful to debug the problems revealed by fault injection
-	capabilities.
+	specifies the verbosity of the messages when failure is
+	injected.  '0' means no messages; '1' will print only a single
+	log line per failure; '2' will print a call trace too -- useful
+	to debug the problems revealed by fault injection.
 
 
-- /debug/*/task-filter:
+- /debug/fail*/task-filter:
 
 
-	Format: { 0 | 1 }
-	A value of '0' disables filtering by process (default).
+	Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+	A value of 'N' disables filtering by process (default).
 	Any positive value limits failures to only processes indicated by
 	Any positive value limits failures to only processes indicated by
 	/proc/<pid>/make-it-fail==1.
 	/proc/<pid>/make-it-fail==1.
 
 
-- /debug/*/require-start:
-- /debug/*/require-end:
-- /debug/*/reject-start:
-- /debug/*/reject-end:
+- /debug/fail*/require-start:
+- /debug/fail*/require-end:
+- /debug/fail*/reject-start:
+- /debug/fail*/reject-end:
 
 
 	specifies the range of virtual addresses tested during
 	specifies the range of virtual addresses tested during
 	stacktrace walking.  Failure is injected only if some caller
 	stacktrace walking.  Failure is injected only if some caller
@@ -85,22 +84,23 @@ configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
 	Default required range is [0,ULONG_MAX) (whole of virtual address space).
 	Default required range is [0,ULONG_MAX) (whole of virtual address space).
 	Default rejected range is [0,0).
 	Default rejected range is [0,0).
 
 
-- /debug/*/stacktrace-depth:
+- /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth:
 
 
 	specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walked during search
 	specifies the maximum stacktrace depth walked during search
-	for a caller within [address-start,address-end).
+	for a caller within [require-start,require-end) OR
+	[reject-start,reject-end).
 
 
 - /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem:
 - /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-highmem:
 
 
-	Format: { 0 | 1 }
-	default is 0, setting it to '1' won't inject failures into
+	Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+	default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' won't inject failures into
 	highmem/user allocations.
 	highmem/user allocations.
 
 
 - /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait:
 - /debug/failslab/ignore-gfp-wait:
 - /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait:
 - /debug/fail_page_alloc/ignore-gfp-wait:
 
 
-	Format: { 0 | 1 }
-	default is 0, setting it to '1' will inject failures
+	Format: { 'Y' | 'N' }
+	default is 'N', setting it to 'Y' will inject failures
 	only into non-sleep allocations (GFP_ATOMIC allocations).
 	only into non-sleep allocations (GFP_ATOMIC allocations).
 
 
 o Boot option
 o Boot option
@@ -124,22 +124,22 @@ o define the fault attributes
   Please see the definition of struct fault_attr in fault-inject.h
   Please see the definition of struct fault_attr in fault-inject.h
   for details.
   for details.
 
 
-o provide the way to configure fault attributes
+o provide a way to configure fault attributes
 
 
 - boot option
 - boot option
 
 
   If you need to enable the fault injection capability from boot time, you can
   If you need to enable the fault injection capability from boot time, you can
-  provide boot option to configure it. There is a helper function for it.
+  provide boot option to configure it. There is a helper function for it:
 
 
-  setup_fault_attr(attr, str);
+	setup_fault_attr(attr, str);
 
 
 - debugfs entries
 - debugfs entries
 
 
   failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way.
   failslab, fail_page_alloc, and fail_make_request use this way.
-  There is a helper function for it.
+  Helper functions:
 
 
-  init_fault_attr_entries(entries, attr, name);
-  void cleanup_fault_attr_entries(entries);
+	init_fault_attr_entries(entries, attr, name);
+	void cleanup_fault_attr_entries(entries);
 
 
 - module parameters
 - module parameters
 
 
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ o provide the way to configure fault attributes
 
 
 o add a hook to insert failures
 o add a hook to insert failures
 
 
-  should_fail() returns 1 when failures should happen.
+  Upon should_fail() returning true, client code should inject a failure.
 
 
-	should_fail(attr,size);
+	should_fail(attr, size);
 
 
 Application Examples
 Application Examples
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