From ab51fbab39d864f3223e44a2600fd951df261f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:26:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] futex: Fault/error injection capabilities Although futexes are well known for being a royal pita, we really have very little debugging capabilities - except for relying on tglx's eye half the time. By simply making use of the existing fault-injection machinery, we can improve this situation, allowing generating artificial uaddress faults and deadlock scenarios. Of course, when this is disabled in production systems, the overhead for failure checks is practically zero -- so this is very cheap at the same time. Future work would be nice to now enhance trinity to make use of this. There is a special tunable 'ignore-private', which can filter out private futexes. Given the tsk->make_it_fail filter and this option, pi futexes can be narrowed down pretty closely. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435645562-975-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-format-patch failed