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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 12:36:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-16 12:36:49 -0800
commitd4220f987cf473c65a342ca69e3eb13dea919a49 (patch)
treedbb004a9c805d6de3f6e3955398fee1084a29f16 /Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
parent61cf693159d6a968a7014e24905143f71ed8ddcf (diff)
parentf2c03debdfb387fa2e35cac6382779072b8b9209 (diff)
Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (34 commits) HWPOISON: Remove stray phrase in a comment HWPOISON: Try to allocate migration page on the same node HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support HWPOISON: Undefine short-hand macros after use to avoid namespace conflict HWPOISON: Use new shake_page in memory_failure HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentation HWPOISON: mention HWPoison in Kconfig entry HWPOISON: Use get_user_page_fast in hwpoison madvise HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filter memcg: add accessor to mem_cgroup.css memcg: rename and export try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page() HWPOISON: add page flags filter mm: export stable page flags HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page types HWPOISON: add fs/device filters HWPOISON: return 0 to indicate success reliably HWPOISON: make semantics of IGNORED/DELAYED clear ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index 3ffadf8da61..12f9ba20ccb 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -92,16 +92,62 @@ PR_MCE_KILL_GET
Testing:
-madvise(MADV_POISON, ....)
+madvise(MADV_HWPOISON, ....)
(as root)
Poison a page in the process for testing
hwpoison-inject module through debugfs
- /sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn
-Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file
+/sys/debug/hwpoison/
+corrupt-pfn
+
+Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file. This does
+some early filtering to avoid corrupted unintended pages in test suites.
+
+unpoison-pfn
+
+Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This
+way a page can be reused again.
+This only works for Linux injected failures, not for real
+memory failures.
+
+Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
+kernel versions
+
+corrupt-filter-dev-major
+corrupt-filter-dev-minor
+
+Only handle memory failures to pages associated with the file system defined
+by block device major/minor. -1U is the wildcard value.
+This should be only used for testing with artificial injection.
+
+corrupt-filter-memcg
+
+Limit injection to pages owned by memgroup. Specified by inode number
+of the memcg.
+
+Example:
+ mkdir /cgroup/hwpoison
+
+ usemem -m 100 -s 1000 &
+ echo `jobs -p` > /cgroup/hwpoison/tasks
+
+ memcg_ino=$(ls -id /cgroup/hwpoison | cut -f1 -d' ')
+ echo $memcg_ino > /debug/hwpoison/corrupt-filter-memcg
+
+ page-types -p `pidof init` --hwpoison # shall do nothing
+ page-types -p `pidof usemem` --hwpoison # poison its pages
+
+corrupt-filter-flags-mask
+corrupt-filter-flags-value
+
+When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) == value).
+This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages. The page_flags
+are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The flag bits are defined in
+include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and documented in
+Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
Architecture specific MCE injector