1Notifier error injection
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3
4Notifier error injection provides the ability to inject artificial errors to
5specified notifier chain callbacks. It is useful to test the error handling of
6notifier call chain failures which is rarely executed.  There are kernel
7modules that can be used to test the following notifiers.
8
9 * PM notifier
10 * Memory hotplug notifier
11 * powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier
12 * Netdevice notifier
13
14PM notifier error injection module
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16This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
17
18  /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/actions/<notifier event>/error
19
20Possible PM notifier events to be failed are:
21
22 * PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE
23 * PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE
24 * PM_RESTORE_PREPARE
25
26Example: Inject PM suspend error (-12 = -ENOMEM)::
27
28	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pm/
29	# echo -12 > actions/PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE/error
30	# echo mem > /sys/power/state
31	bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
32
33Memory hotplug notifier error injection module
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35This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
36
37  /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory/actions/<notifier event>/error
38
39Possible memory notifier events to be failed are:
40
41 * MEM_GOING_ONLINE
42 * MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
43
44Example: Inject memory hotplug offline error (-12 == -ENOMEM)::
45
46	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/memory
47	# echo -12 > actions/MEM_GOING_OFFLINE/error
48	# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
49	bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory
50
51powerpc pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module
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53This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
54
55  /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/pSeries-reconfig/actions/<notifier event>/error
56
57Possible pSeries reconfig notifier events to be failed are:
58
59 * PSERIES_RECONFIG_ADD
60 * PSERIES_RECONFIG_REMOVE
61 * PSERIES_DRCONF_MEM_ADD
62 * PSERIES_DRCONF_MEM_REMOVE
63
64Netdevice notifier error injection module
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66This feature is controlled through debugfs interface
67
68  /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev/actions/<notifier event>/error
69
70Netdevice notifier events which can be failed are:
71
72 * NETDEV_REGISTER
73 * NETDEV_CHANGEMTU
74 * NETDEV_CHANGENAME
75 * NETDEV_PRE_UP
76 * NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE
77 * NETDEV_POST_INIT
78 * NETDEV_PRECHANGEMTU
79 * NETDEV_PRECHANGEUPPER
80 * NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER
81
82Example: Inject netdevice mtu change error (-22 == -EINVAL)::
83
84	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/notifier-error-inject/netdev
85	# echo -22 > actions/NETDEV_CHANGEMTU/error
86	# ip link set eth0 mtu 1024
87	RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
88
89For more usage examples
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91There are tools/testing/selftests using the notifier error injection features
92for CPU and memory notifiers.
93
94 * tools/testing/selftests/cpu-hotplug/on-off-test.sh
95 * tools/testing/selftests/memory-hotplug/on-off-test.sh
96
97These scripts first do simple online and offline tests and then do fault
98injection tests if notifier error injection module is available.
99