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NAME top
**__pmFaultInject**, **__pmFaultSummary**, **PM_FAULT_POINT**,
**PM_FAULT_RETURN**, **PM_FAULT_CHECK**, **PM_FAULT_CLEAR** - Fault Injection
Infrastructure for QAC SYNOPSIS top
**#include <pcp/pmapi.h>**
**#include <pcp/fault.h>**
**void __pmFaultInject(const char ***_ident_**, int** _class_**);**
**void __pmFaultSummary(FILE ***_f_**);**
**PM_FAULT_POINT(**_ident_**,** _class_**);**
**PM_FAULT_RETURN(**_retvalue_**);**
**PM_FAULT_CHECK;**
**PM_FAULT_CLEAR;**
**cc -DPM_FAULT_INJECTION=1 ... -lpcp_fault**DESCRIPTION top
As part of the coverage-driven changes to QA in PCP 3.6, it became
apparent that we needed someway to exercise the ``uncommon'' code
paths associated with error detection and recovery.
The facilities described below provide a basic fault injection
infrastructure (for _libpcp_ only at this stage, although the
mechanism is far more general and could easily be extended).
A special build is required to create _libpcpfault_ and the
associated _<pcp/fault.h>_ header file. Once this has been done,
new QA applications may be built with **-DPM_FAULT_INJECTION=1**
and/or existing applications can be exercised in presence of fault
injection by forcing _libpcpfault_ to be used in preference to
_libpcp_ as described below.
In the code to be tested, **__pmFaultInject** defines a fault point at
which a fault of type _class_ may be injected. _ident_ is a string to
uniquely identify the fault point across all of the PCP source
code, so something like "libpcp/" __FILE__ ":<number>" works just
fine. The _ident_ string also determines if a fault will be
injected at run-time or not - refer to the **RUN-TIME CONTROL**
section below. _class_ selects a failure type, using one of the
following defined values (this list may well grow over time):
**PM_FAULT_ALLOC**
Will cause the **next** call to [malloc(3)](../man3/malloc.3.html), [realloc(3)](../man3/realloc.3.html) or
[strdup(3)](../man3/strdup.3.html) to fail, returning NULL and setting _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ to
**ENOMEM**. We could extend the coverage to all of the malloc-
related routines, but these three are sufficient to cover
the vast majority of the uses within _libpcp_.
**PM_FAULT_CALL**
Will cause the **next** call to an instrumented routine to fail
by returning an error code (possibly the new **PM_ERR_FAULT**
code). The actual error code is defined in the
**PM_FAULT_RETURN** macro at the head of an instrumented
routine. Initially, only **__pmRegisterAnon**(3) (returns
**PM_ERR_FAULT**), **__pmGetPDU**(3) (returns **PM_ERR_TIMEOUT**) and
**__pmAllocResult**(3) (returns **NULL**) were instrumented as a
proof of concept for this part of the facility, however
other routines may have this fault injection capability
added over time.
**PM_FAULT_MISC**
The ``other'' class, currently used with **PM_FAULT_CHECK** as
described below.
To allow fault injection to co-exist within the production source
code, **PM_FAULT_POINT** is a macro that emits no code by default, but
when **PM_FAULT_INJECTION** is defined this becomes a call to
**__pmFaultInject**. Throughout _libpcp_ we use **PM_FAULT_POINT** and **not**
**__pmFaultInject** so that both _libpcp_ and _libpcpfault_ can be built
from the same source code.
Similarly, the macro **PM_FAULT_RETURN** emits no code unless
**PM_FAULT_INJECTION** is defined, in which case if a fault of type
**PM_FAULT_CALL** has been armed with **__pmFaultInject** then, the
enclosing routine return with the function value _retvalue_.
The **PM_FAULT_CHECK** macro returns a value that may be 0 or 1. If
**PM_FAULT_INJECTION** is defined then if a fault of type
**PM_FAULT_MISC** has been armed with **__pmFaultInject** then the value
is 1 else it is 0.
**PM_FAULT_CHECK** is most often used in concert with the
**PM_FAULT_POINT** macro with the **PM_FAULT_MISC** class to potentially
arm a trigger, then test **PM_FAULT_CHECK** and if this has the value
1, then the **PM_FAULT_CLEAR** macro is used to clear any armed
faults, and the fault injection code is executed.
This is illustrated in the example below from
_src/libpcp/src/exec.c_:
pid = fork();
/* begin fault-injection block */
PM_FAULT_POINT("libpcp/" __FILE__ ":4", PM_FAULT_MISC);
if (PM_FAULT_CHECK) {
PM_FAULT_CLEAR;
if (pid > (pid_t)0)
kill(pid, SIGKILL);
setoserror(EAGAIN);
pid = -1;
}
/* end fault-injection block */
A summary of fault points seen and faults injected is produced on
stdio stream _f_ by **__pmFaultSummary**.
Additional tracing (via **-Dfault** or **pmDebugOptions.fault**) and a new
PMAPI error code (**PM_ERR_FAULT**) are also defined, although these
will only ever be seen or used in _libpcpfault_. If
**pmDebugOptions.fault** is set the first time **__pmFaultInject** is
called, then **__pmFaultSummary** will be called automatically to
report on _stderr_ when the application exits (via [atexit(3)](../man3/atexit.3.html)).
Fault injection cannot be nested. Each call to **__pmFaultInject**
clears any previous fault injection that has been armed, but not
yet executed.
The fault injection infrastructure is **not** thread-safe and should
only be used with applications that are known to be single-
threaded.RUN-TIME CONTROL top
By default, no fault injection is enabled at run-time, even when
**__pmFaultInject** is called.
Faults are selectively enabled using a control file, identified by
the environment variable **$PM_FAULT_CONTROL**; if this is not set, no
faults are enabled.
The control file (if it exists) is read the first time
**__pmFaultInject** is called, and contains lines of the form:
_ident op number_
that define fault injection guards.
_ident_ is a fault point string (as defined by a call to
**__pmFaultInject**, or more usually the **PM_FAULT_POINT** macro). So
one needs access to the _libpcp_ source code to determine the
available _ident_ strings and their semantics.
_op_ is one of the C-style operators **>=**, **>**, **==**, **<**, **<=**, **!=** or **%** and
_number_ is an unsigned integer. _op number_ is optional and the
default is **>0**
The semantics of the fault injection guards are that each time
**__pmFaultInject** is called for a particular _ident_, a trip count is
incremented (the first trip is 1); if the C-style expression
_tripcount op number_ has the value 1 (so **true** for most _op_s, or the
remainder equals 1 for the **%** _op_), then a fault of the _class_
defined for the fault point associated with _ident_ will be armed,
and executed as soon as possible.
Within the control file, blank lines are ignored and lines
beginning with # are treated as comments.
For an existing application linked with _libpcp_ fault injection may
still be used by forcing _libpcpfault_ to be used in the place of
_libpcp_. The following example shows how this might be done.
$ export PM_FAULT_CONTROL=/tmp/control
$ cat $PM_FAULT_CONTROL
# ok for 2 trips, then inject errors
libpcp/events.c:1 >2
$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpcp_fault.so
$ pmevent -Dfault -s 3 sample.event.records
host: localhost
samples: 3
interval: 1.00 sec
sample.event.records[fungus]: 0 event records
__pmFaultInject(libpcp/events.c:1) ntrip=1 SKIP
sample.event.records[bogus]: 2 event records
10:46:12.413 --- event record [0] flags 0x1 (point) ---
sample.event.param_string "fetch #0"
10:46:12.413 --- event record [1] flags 0x1 (point) ---
sample.event.param_string "bingo!"
__pmFaultInject(libpcp/events.c:1) ntrip=2 SKIP
sample.event.records[fungus]: 1 event records
10:46:03.416 --- event record [0] flags 0x1 (point) ---
__pmFaultInject(libpcp/events.c:1) ntrip=3 INJECT
sample.event.records[bogus]: pmUnpackEventRecords: Cannot allocate memory
__pmFaultInject(libpcp/events.c:1) ntrip=4 INJECT
sample.event.records[fungus]: pmUnpackEventRecords: Cannot allocate memory
__pmFaultInject(libpcp/events.c:1) ntrip=5 INJECT
sample.event.records[bogus]: pmUnpackEventRecords: Cannot allocate memory
=== Fault Injection Summary Report ===
libpcp/events.c:1: guard trip>2, 5 trips, 3 faultsEXAMPLES top
Refer to the PCP and PCP QA source code.
The macro definitions are in _src/include/pcp/fault.h_.
_src/libpcp/src/fault.c_ contains all of the the underlying
implementation.
_src/libpcpfault_ and _src/libpcpfault/src_ contains the recipe and
Makefiles for creating and installing _libpcpfault.so_ and
_<pcp/fault.h>_.
**PM_FAULT_RETURN** was initiallly used in the following _libpcp_ source
files: _deriveparser.y.in_, _pdu.c_ and _result.c_.
**PM_FAULT_POINT**. was initiallly used in the following _libpcp_
source files: _deriveparser.y.in_, _desc.c_, _eindom.c_, _elabels.c_,
_err.c_, _events.c_, _exec.c_, _fetch.c_, _help.c_, _instance.c_, _interp.c_,
_labels.c_, _logmeta.c_, _pmns.c_, _pprofile.c_ and _store.c_.
The ``fault'' group of QA tests show examples of control file use.
To see which tests are involved
$ cd qa
$ check -n -g faultDIAGNOSTICS top
Some non-recoverable errors are reported on _stderr_.ENVIRONMENT top
**PM_FAULT_CONTROL**
Full path to the fault injection control file.
**LD_PRELOAD**
Force _libpcpfault_ to be used in preference to _libpcp_.SEE ALSO top
[PMAPI(3)](../man3/PMAPI.3.html)COLOPHON top
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