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.
[[email protected]: changelog addition]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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