Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen: add generic fault injection facility

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 06:59:26 EST


On 20/04/18 12:47, Stanislav Kinsburskii wrote:
> The overall idea of this patch is to add a generic fault injection facility
> to Xen, which later can be used in various places by different Xen parts.
>
> Core implementation ideas:
>
> - The facility build is controlled by boolean config
> CONFIG_XEN_FAULT_INJECTION option ("N" by default).
>
> - All fault injection logic is located in an optionally compiled separated
> file.
>
> - Fault injection attribute and control directory creation and destruction
> are wrapped with helpers, producing and accepting a pointer to an opaque
> object thus making all the rest of code independent on fault injection
> engine.
>
> When enabled Xen root fault injection directory appears:
>
> - /sys/kernel/debug/xen/fault_inject/
>
> The falicity provides the following helpers (exported to be accessible in
> modules):
>
> - xen_fi_add(name) - adds fault injection control directory "name" to Xen
> root fault injection directory
>
> - xen_fi_dir_create(name) - allows to create a subdirectory "name" in Xen
> root fault injection directory.
>
> - xen_fi_dir_add(dir, name) - adds fault injection control directory "name"
> to directory "dir"
>
> - xen_should_fail(fi) - check whether fi hav to fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <staskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: Stanislav Kinsburskii <staskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/Kconfig | 7 +++
> arch/x86/xen/Makefile | 1
> arch/x86/xen/fault_inject.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/xen/fault_inject.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 162 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/fault_inject.c
> create mode 100644 include/xen/fault_inject.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> index c1f98f3..483fc16 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
> @@ -77,3 +77,10 @@ config XEN_PVH
> bool "Support for running as a PVH guest"
> depends on XEN && XEN_PVHVM && ACPI
> def_bool n
> +
> +config XEN_FAULT_INJECTION
> + bool "Enable Xen fault injection"
> + depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
> + default n
> + help
> + Enable Xen fault injection facility

Why for x86 only? I'd rather add this under drivers/xen

> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Makefile b/arch/x86/xen/Makefile
> index d83cb54..3158fe1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/Makefile
> @@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_DOM0) += vga.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN) += pci-swiotlb-xen.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_EFI) += efi.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_PVH) += xen-pvh.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_XEN_FAULT_INJECTION) += fault_inject.o
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/fault_inject.c b/arch/x86/xen/fault_inject.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ecf0f7c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/fault_inject.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
> +/*
> + * Fauit injection interface for Xen virtual block devices
> + *
> + * Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; or, when distributed
> + * separately from the Linux kernel or incorporated into other
> + * software packages, subject to the following license:

Please use the appropriate SPDX header instead of the full GPL2
boilerplate.


Juergen