Benchmarking the Operating System against Faults Impacting Operating System Functions

Iyer, Ravishankar K.; Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew; Gu, Weining

doi:10.1002/9780470370506.ch15

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“…In order to characterize the effects of faults on the device drivers, in [20] faults are injected on the parameters of the Driver Programming Interface. Similarly, there have been attempts to characterize the ability to cope with faults affecting operating system functions [21]. Specific kernel data structures, and in particular the Mutex semaphores, have been considered in [22], in order to evaluate the criticality of this data structure in case of errors.…”

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Fault injection in the process descriptor of a Unix-based operating system

Montrucchio

Rebaudengo

Velasco

2014

2014 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT)

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Transient faults in computer-based systems for which high availability is a strict requirement, originated from several sources, like high energy particles, are a major issue. Fault injection is a commonly used method to evaluate the sensitivity of such systems. The paper presents an evaluation of the effects of faults in the memory containing the process descriptor of a Unix-based Operating System. In particular the state field has been taken into consideration as the main target, changing the current state value into another one that could be valid or invalid. An experimental analysis has been conducted on a large set of different tasks, belonging to the operating system itself. Results of tests show that the state field in the process descriptor represents a critical variable as far as dependability is considered.

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confidence: 99%