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113 lines
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APEI Error INJection
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EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism
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It is very useful for debugging and testing of other APEI and RAS features.
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To use EINJ, make sure the following are enabled in your kernel
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configuration:
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CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
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CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
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CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ
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The user interface of EINJ is debug file system, under the
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directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
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- available_error_type
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Reading this file returns the error injection capability of the
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platform, that is, which error types are supported. The error type
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definition is as follow, the left field is the error type value, the
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right field is error description.
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0x00000001 Processor Correctable
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0x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
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0x00000004 Processor Uncorrectable fatal
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0x00000008 Memory Correctable
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0x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
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0x00000020 Memory Uncorrectable fatal
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0x00000040 PCI Express Correctable
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0x00000080 PCI Express Uncorrectable fatal
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0x00000100 PCI Express Uncorrectable non-fatal
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0x00000200 Platform Correctable
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0x00000400 Platform Uncorrectable non-fatal
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0x00000800 Platform Uncorrectable fatal
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The format of file contents are as above, except there are only the
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available error type lines.
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- error_type
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This file is used to set the error type value. The error type value
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is defined in "available_error_type" description.
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- error_inject
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Write any integer to this file to trigger the error
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injection. Before this, please specify all necessary error
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parameters.
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- param1
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This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of
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parameter depends on error_type specified. For example, if error
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type is memory related type, the param1 should be a valid physical
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memory address.
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- param2
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This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
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parameter depends on error_type specified. For example, if error
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type is memory related type, the param2 should be a physical memory
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address mask. Linux requires page or narrower granularity, say,
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0xfffffffffffff000.
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- notrigger
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The EINJ mechanism is a two step process. First inject the error, then
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perform some actions to trigger it. Setting "notrigger" to 1 skips the
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trigger phase, which *may* allow the user to cause the error in some other
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context by a simple access to the cpu, memory location, or device that is
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the target of the error injection. Whether this actually works depends
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on what operations the BIOS actually includes in the trigger phase.
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BIOS versions based in the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
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to control where the errors are injected. Your BIOS may support an
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extension (enabled with the param_extension=1 module parameter, or
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boot command line einj.param_extension=1). This allows the address
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and mask for memory injections to be specified by the param1 and
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param2 files in apei/einj.
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BIOS versions using the ACPI 5.0 specification have more control over
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the target of the injection. For processor related errors (type 0x1,
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0x2 and 0x4) the APICID of the target should be provided using the
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param1 file in apei/einj. For memory errors (type 0x8, 0x10 and 0x20)
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the address is set using param1 with a mask in param2 (0x0 is equivalent
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to all ones). For PCI express errors (type 0x40, 0x80 and 0x100) the
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segment, bus, device and function are specified using param1:
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31 24 23 16 15 11 10 8 7 0
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+-------------------------------------------------+
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| segment | bus | device | function | reserved |
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+-------------------------------------------------+
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An ACPI 5.0 BIOS may also allow vendor specific errors to be injected.
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In this case a file named vendor will contain identifying information
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from the BIOS that hopefully will allow an application wishing to use
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the vendor specific extension to tell that they are running on a BIOS
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that supports it. All vendor extensions have the 0x80000000 bit set in
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error_type. A file vendor_flags controls the interpretation of param1
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and param2 (1 = PROCESSOR, 2 = MEMORY, 4 = PCI). See your BIOS vendor
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documentation for details (and expect changes to this API if vendors
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creativity in using this feature expands beyond our expectations).
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Example:
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# cd /sys/kernel/debug/apei/einj
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# cat available_error_type # See which errors can be injected
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0x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
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0x00000008 Memory Correctable
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0x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
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# echo 0x12345000 > param1 # Set memory address for injection
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# echo 0xfffffffffffff000 > param2 # Mask - anywhere in this page
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# echo 0x8 > error_type # Choose correctable memory error
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# echo 1 > error_inject # Inject now
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For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
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version 4.0, section 17.5 and ACPI 5.0, section 18.6.
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