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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2009-12-16 06:19:58 -0500
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2009-12-16 06:19:58 -0500
commit847ce401df392b0704369fd3f75df614ac1414b4 (patch)
tree7c5021386dedea0d12f8a05b00c5267c4d28e426 /Documentation
parent8d22ba1b74aa9420b6032d856446564fb21f8090 (diff)
HWPOISON: Add unpoisoning support
The unpoisoning interface is useful for stress testing tools to reclaim poisoned pages (to prevent OOM) There is no hardware level unpoisioning, so this cannot be used for real memory errors, only for software injected errors. Note that it may leak pages silently - those who have been removed from LRU cache, but not isolated from page cache/swap cache at hwpoison time. Especially the stress test of dirty swap cache pages shall reboot system before exhausting memory. AK: Fix comments, add documentation, add printks, rename symbol Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index 3ffadf8da61f..f047e75acb23 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -98,10 +98,22 @@ madvise(MADV_POISON, ....)
98 98
99 99
100hwpoison-inject module through debugfs 100hwpoison-inject module through debugfs
101 /sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn
102 101
103Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file 102/sys/debug/hwpoison/
104 103
104corrupt-pfn
105
106Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file.
107
108unpoison-pfn
109
110Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This
111way a page can be reused again.
112This only works for Linux injected failures, not for real
113memory failures.
114
115Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
116kernel versions
105 117
106Architecture specific MCE injector 118Architecture specific MCE injector
107 119