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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index bdee91d50a5..20341480bb5 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1097,10 +1097,22 @@ config NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION config CPU_NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECT tristate "CPU notifier error injection module" - depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && NOTIFIER_ERROR_INJECTION help This option provides a kernel module that can be used to test - the error handling of the cpu notifiers + the error handling of the cpu notifiers by injecting artifical + errors to CPU notifier chain callbacks. It is controlled through + debugfs interface under /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu + + If the notifier call chain should be failed with some events + notified, write the error code to "actions/<notifier event>/error". + + Example: Inject CPU offline error (-1 == -EPERM) + + # cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/cpu + # echo -1 > actions/CPU_DOWN_PREPARE/error + # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online + bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the module will be called cpu-notifier-error-inject. |