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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2017-07-14 14:50:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-14 15:05:13 -0700
commit168c42bc56d8d47f67f2a5206506cd4ba3c18475 (patch)
tree7e82690179b0b796505e493452f04c60df3613d9 /Documentation/fault-injection
parent1203c8e6fb0aa1e9c39d2323607a74c3adc34fd8 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-168c42bc56d8d47f67f2a5206506cd4ba3c18475.tar.gz
fault-inject: add /proc/<pid>/fail-nth
fail-nth interface is only created in /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/. This change also adds it in /proc/<pid>/. This makes shell based tool a bit simpler. $ bash -c "builtin echo 100 > /proc/self/fail-nth && exec ls /" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491490561-10485-6-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
index 370ddcbc2b44..918972babcd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ use the boot option:
o proc entries
-- /proc/self/task/<current-tid>/fail-nth:
+- /proc/<pid>/fail-nth:
+- /proc/self/task/<tid>/fail-nth:
Write to this file of integer N makes N-th call in the task fail.
Read from this file returns a integer value. A value of '0' indicates