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authorAnkita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>2006-10-02 02:17:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:16 -0700
commit8bb31b9d5340ed3dfef45d322f59fcf18a0d598b (patch)
treeb0c225ebc5ed8ca6b0ad3c10b09f715d9ad67ad9 /lib
parent99219a3fbc2dcf2eaa954f7b2ac27299fd7894cd (diff)
[PATCH] Linux Kernel Dump Test Module
A simple module to test Linux Kernel Dump mechanism. This module uses jprobes to install/activate pre-defined crash points. At different crash points, various types of crashing scenarios are created like a BUG(), panic(), exception, recursive loop and stack overflow. The user can activate a crash point with specific type by providing parameters at the time of module insertion. Please see the file header for usage information. The module is based on the Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool by Fernando <http://lkdtt.sourceforge.net>. This module could be merged with mainline. Jprobes is used here so that the context in which crash point is hit, could be maintained. This implements all the crash points as done by LKDTT except the one in the middle of tasklet_action(). Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index f9ae75cc014..756a908c441 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -384,3 +384,17 @@ config RCU_TORTURE_TEST
at boot time (you probably don't).
Say M if you want the RCU torture tests to build as a module.
Say N if you are unsure.
+
+config LKDTM
+ tristate "Linux Kernel Dump Test Tool Module"
+ depends on KPROBES
+ default n
+ help
+ This module enables testing of the different dumping mechanisms by
+ inducing system failures at predefined crash points.
+ If you don't need it: say N
+ Choose M here to compile this code as a module. The module will be
+ called lkdtm.
+
+ Documentation on how to use the module can be found in
+ drivers/misc/lkdtm.c