[PATCH v3 2/3] mmc: core: add random fault injection

[Per Forlin]

Hi Akinobu,

On 25 July 2011 21:19, Per Forlin <per.forlin at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 17:58, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/7/21 Per Forlin <per.forlin at linaro.org>:
>>> This adds support to inject data errors after a completed host transfer.
>>> The mmc core will return error even though the host transfer is successful.
>>> This simple fault injection proved to be very useful to test the
>>> non-blocking error handling in the mmc_blk_issue_rw_rq().
>>> Random faults can also test how the host driver handles pre_req()
>>> and post_req() in case of errors.
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
> Thanks,
>
>>> @@ -82,6 +87,66 @@ static void mmc_flush_scheduled_work(void)
>>>        flush_workqueue(workqueue);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MMC_REQUEST
>>> +
>>> +static DECLARE_FAULT_ATTR(fail_mmc_request);
>>
>> I think the fail_attr should be defined for each mmc_host like make_it_fail
>> in struct mmc_host and debugfs entries should also be created in a
>> subdirectory of mmc host debugfs.
>>
> I looked at blk-core.c and used the same code here. Current code
> creates the entry under the debugfs root. This means one fail_attr for
> all hosts.
> I agree, it's more clean to move the fail_attr to the
> host-debugfs-entry which require the fail_attr to be stored same way
> as make_it_fail.
>
>> And I know that init_fault_attr_dentries() can only create a
>> subdirectory in debugfs root directory.  But I have a patch which
>> support for creating it in arbitrary directory.  Could you take a look
>> at this? (Note that this patch is based on mmotm and not yet tested)
>>
I looked at your patch and it raised two questions.
I can't use FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER since mmc_host is allocated on the
heap. It looks like setup_fault_attr(attr, str) will fail if str is
NULL. How can I initialise the fault_attrs if not stack allocated?
About the boot param initialisation of fault attr. There can only be
one fault_mmc_request boot param for the entire kernel but there is
one fault_attr per host, and there may be many hosts. It would be
convenient if setup_fault_attrs would take (attr, boot_param_name),
look up boot_param_name and use that otherwise set default values.

Regards,
Per