HWPOISON: add page flags filter

When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) == value).

-       corrupt-filter-flags-mask
-       corrupt-filter-flags-value

This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages.

Strictly speaking, the buddy pages requires taking zone lock, to avoid
setting PG_hwpoison on a "was buddy but now allocated to someone" page.
However we can just do nothing because we set PG_locked in the beginning,
this prevents the page allocator from allocating it to someone. (It will
BUG() on the unexpected PG_locked, which is fine for hwpoison testing.)

[AK: Add select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to satisfy dependency]

CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index 4ef7bb30d15c..f454d3cd4d60 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ 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-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
 
 x86 has mce-inject, mce-test