[Fault-injection-developer] RE: [DISCUSSION] make decisions about ficl

[Wang, S. <sta...@in...>]

A. yes
B. no

For question B, I think we could do some cleaning work when the 
interceptor is remove to decrease the potionial issues.

-Stan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhuang, Louis 
> Sent: 2003-01-10 9:12
> To: 'Rusty Lynch'; fau...@li...
> Cc: Gao, Kevin; Wang, Frank; Wang, Stanley; Zhuang, Louis
> Subject: [DISCUSSION] make decisions about ficl
> 
> 
> > * In case the chicken-and-egg analogy is not obvious across cultural
> >   barriers...  it refers to the evolutionary question of which came 
> In fact, chicken-and-egg is really across cluture, at least 
> in China. ;->
> 
> According to ficl, we've some decisions to make. 
> First, ficl for current FITH should still use FSML as input?
> a. yes
> b. no
> Second, ficl should lock relevant drivers/modules 
> automatically as before?
> a. yes.
> b. no
> 
> For second item, locking modules is a really mess which is 
> not really relative with fault injection itself. But it can 
> protect system from mis-operating (for example, tester always 
> forgets remove PF trigger before unload tested-driver. This 
> will make kernel oops because iounmap finds some MMIO page is 
> not present.) But we can not find a clean way to lock module 
> in user space. Shall we investigate more on this? Or shall we 
> talk with Russell for this feature?
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> 
> 
> Yours truly,
> Louis Zhuang
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