[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>

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh b/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
index 9abac34633b99a74c743481332814fd478ad09ed..474a8b971f9ca82ad722e4166e6d323cee368a36 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/failmodule.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ fi
 # Disable any fault injection
 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

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
index 6d6e5ac5ea9272449f6a62c25c35c97d7d54dd5f..b7ca560b93407ca94848ced9304a52b2365c9559 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ o fail_page_alloc
 
 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>/<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
 configuration of fault-injection capabilities.
 
-- /debug/*/probability:
+- /debug/fail*/probability:
 
        likelihood of failure injection, in 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
        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
        probably want to set probability=100.
 
-- /debug/*/times:
+- /debug/fail*/times:
 
        specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
        A value of -1 means "no limit".
 
-- /debug/*/space:
+- /debug/fail*/space:
 
        specifies an initial resource "budget", decremented by "size"
        on each call to should_fail(,size).  Failure injection is
        suppressed until "space" reaches zero.
 
-- /debug/*/verbose
+- /debug/fail*/verbose
 
        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
        /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
        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 rejected range is [0,0).
 
-- /debug/*/stacktrace-depth:
+- /debug/fail*/stacktrace-depth:
 
        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:
 
-       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.
 
 - /debug/failslab/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).
 
 o Boot option
@@ -124,22 +124,22 @@ o define the fault attributes
   Please see the definition of struct fault_attr in fault-inject.h
   for details.
 
-o provide the way to configure fault attributes
+o provide a way to configure fault attributes
 
 - boot option
 
   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
 
   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
 
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ o provide the way to configure fault attributes
 
 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
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