Re: [PATCH] fault-inject: Avoid call to random32() if fault injectionis disabled

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 08:38:09 EST


2012/6/1 Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> After enabling CONFIG_FAILSLAB I noticed random32 in profiles even
> if slub fault injection wasn't enabled at runtime.
>
> should_fail forces a comparison against random32() even if
> probability is 0:
>
>        if (attr->probability <= random32() % 100)
>                return false;
>
> Add a check up front for probability == 0 and avoid all of the more
> complicated checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-build/lib/fault-inject.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-build.orig/lib/fault-inject.c 2012-02-11 21:22:32.303459860 +1100
> +++ linux-build/lib/fault-inject.c      2012-02-11 22:38:10.470977505 +1100
> @@ -101,6 +101,10 @@ static inline bool fail_stacktrace(struc
>
>  bool should_fail(struct fault_attr *attr, ssize_t size)
>  {
> +       /* No need to check any other properties if the probability is 0 */
> +       if (attr->probability == 0)
> +               return false;
> +
>        if (attr->task_filter && !fail_task(attr, current))
>                return false;
>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
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