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author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-08 20:21:04 +0000 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2010-03-08 20:21:04 +0000 |
commit | 988addf82e4c03739375279de73929580a2d4a6a (patch) | |
tree | 989ae1cd4e264bbad80c65f04480486246e7b9f3 /Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt | |
parent | 004c1c7096659d352b83047a7593e91d8a30e3c5 (diff) | |
parent | 25cf84cf377c0aae5dbcf937ea89bc7893db5176 (diff) |
Merge branch 'origin' into devel-stable
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.c
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.h
sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7a9d3d81525b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/provoke-crashes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +The lkdtm module provides an interface to crash or injure the kernel at +predefined crashpoints to evaluate the reliability of crash dumps obtained +using different dumping solutions. The module uses KPROBEs to instrument +crashing points, but can also crash the kernel directly without KRPOBE +support. + + +You can provide the way either through module arguments when inserting +the module, or through a debugfs interface. + +Usage: insmod lkdtm.ko [recur_count={>0}] cpoint_name=<> cpoint_type=<> + [cpoint_count={>0}] + + recur_count : Recursion level for the stack overflow test. Default is 10. + + cpoint_name : Crash point where the kernel is to be crashed. It can be + one of INT_HARDWARE_ENTRY, INT_HW_IRQ_EN, INT_TASKLET_ENTRY, + FS_DEVRW, MEM_SWAPOUT, TIMERADD, SCSI_DISPATCH_CMD, + IDE_CORE_CP, DIRECT + + cpoint_type : Indicates the action to be taken on hitting the crash point. + It can be one of PANIC, BUG, EXCEPTION, LOOP, OVERFLOW, + CORRUPT_STACK, UNALIGNED_LOAD_STORE_WRITE, OVERWRITE_ALLOCATION, + WRITE_AFTER_FREE, + + cpoint_count : Indicates the number of times the crash point is to be hit + to trigger an action. The default is 10. + +You can also induce failures by mounting debugfs and writing the type to +<mountpoint>/provoke-crash/<crashpoint>. E.g., + + mount -t debugfs debugfs /mnt + echo EXCEPTION > /mnt/provoke-crash/INT_HARDWARE_ENTRY + + +A special file is `DIRECT' which will induce the crash directly without +KPROBE instrumentation. This mode is the only one available when the module +is built on a kernel without KPROBEs support. |