mm/page_alloc.c: allow error injection
authorBenjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:39:23 +0000 (00:39 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:11:51 +0000 (12:11 -0800)
commitaf3b854492f351d1ff3b4744a83bf5ff7eed4920
tree1f5eb6d523acd89f2d3b57598878fde1136cb060
parentab41ee6879981b3d3a16a1079a33fa6fd043eb3c
mm/page_alloc.c: allow error injection

Model call chain after should_failslab().  Likewise, we can now use a
kprobe to override the return value of should_fail_alloc_page() and inject
allocation failures into alloc_page*().

This will allow injecting allocation failures using the BCC tools even
without building kernel with CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC and booting it with a
fail_page_alloc= parameter, which incurs some overhead even when failures
are not being injected.  On the other hand, this patch adds an
unconditional call to should_fail_alloc_page() from page allocation
hotpath.  That overhead should be rather negligible with
CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC=n when there's no kprobe attached, though.

[vbabka@suse.cz: changelog addition]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181214074330.18917-1-bpoirier@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/asm-generic/error-injection.h
mm/page_alloc.c