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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-01-17 15:10:16 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2012-01-18 01:14:17 -0500
commitc130bd6f82e5dda28b1a19741c4c2fe269713199 (patch)
tree7561dc50d4c256ca9eb19cd55569bc7867289af7 /Documentation/acpi
parent805a6af8dba5dfdd35ec35dc52ec0122400b2610 (diff)
acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec
ACPI 5.0 provides extensions to the EINJ mechanism to specify the target for the error injection - by APICID for cpu related errors, by address for memory related errors, and by segment/bus/device/function for PCIe related errors. Also extensions for vendor specific error injections. Tested-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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@@ -47,20 +47,53 @@ directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
47 47
48- param1 48- param1
49 This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of 49 This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of
50 parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is 50 parameter depends on error_type specified.
51 physical memory address. Only available if param_extension module
52 parameter is specified.
53 51
54- param2 52- param2
55 This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of 53 This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
56 parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is 54 parameter depends on error_type specified.
57 physical memory address mask. Only available if param_extension 55
58 module parameter is specified. 56BIOS versions based in the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
57to control where the errors are injected. Your BIOS may support an
58extension (enabled with the param_extension=1 module parameter, or
59boot command line einj.param_extension=1). This allows the address
60and mask for memory injections to be specified by the param1 and
61param2 files in apei/einj.
62
63BIOS versions using the ACPI 5.0 specification have more control over
64the target of the injection. For processor related errors (type 0x1,
650x2 and 0x4) the APICID of the target should be provided using the
66param1 file in apei/einj. For memory errors (type 0x8, 0x10 and 0x20)
67the address is set using param1 with a mask in param2 (0x0 is equivalent
68to all ones). For PCI express errors (type 0x40, 0x80 and 0x100) the
69segment, bus, device and function are specified using param1:
70
71 31 24 23 16 15 11 10 8 7 0
72 +-------------------------------------------------+
73 | segment | bus | device | function | reserved |
74 +-------------------------------------------------+
75
76An ACPI 5.0 BIOS may also allow vendor specific errors to be injected.
77In this case a file named vendor will contain identifying information
78from the BIOS that hopefully will allow an application wishing to use
79the vendor specific extension to tell that they are running on a BIOS
80that supports it. All vendor extensions have the 0x80000000 bit set in
81error_type. A file vendor_flags controls the interpretation of param1
82and param2 (1 = PROCESSOR, 2 = MEMORY, 4 = PCI). See your BIOS vendor
83documentation for details (and expect changes to this API if vendors
84creativity in using this feature expands beyond our expectations).
85
86Example:
87# cd /sys/kernel/debug/apei/einj
88# cat available_error_type # See which errors can be injected
890x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
900x00000008 Memory Correctable
910x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
92# echo 0x12345000 > param1 # Set memory address for injection
93# echo 0xfffffffffffff000 > param2 # Mask - anywhere in this page
94# echo 0x8 > error_type # Choose correctable memory error
95# echo 1 > error_inject # Inject now
59 96
60Injecting parameter support is a BIOS version specific extension, that
61is, it only works on some BIOS version. If you want to use it, please
62make sure your BIOS version has the proper support and specify
63"param_extension=y" in module parameter.
64 97
65For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification 98For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
66version 4.0, section 17.5. 99version 4.0, section 17.5 and ACPI 5.0, section 18.6.