Add document for APEI, including kernel parameters and EINJ debug file sytem interface. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ + APEI Error INJection + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism, it is very useful +for debugging and testing of other APEI and RAS features. + +To use EINJ, make the following is enabled in your kernel +configuration: + +CONFIG_DEBUG_FS +CONFIG_ACPI_APEI +CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ + +The user interface of EINJ is in debug file system, under the +directory apei/einj. The following files are provided. + +- available_error_type + Read this file will return the error injection capability of the + platform, that is, which error types are supported. The error type + definition is as follow, the left field is the error type value, the + right field is error description. + + 0x00000001 Processor Correctable + 0x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal + 0x00000004 Processor Uncorrectable fatal + 0x00000008 Memory Correctable + 0x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal + 0x00000020 Memory Uncorrectable fatal + 0x00000040 PCI Express Correctable + 0x00000080 PCI Express Uncorrectable fatal + 0x00000100 PCI Express Uncorrectable non-fatal + 0x00000200 Platform Correctable + 0x00000400 Platform Uncorrectable non-fatal + 0x00000800 Platform Uncorrectable fatal + + The format of file contents are as above, except there are only the + available error type lines. + +- error_type + This file is used to set the error type value. The error type value + is defined in "available_error_type" description. + +- error_inject + Write any integer to this file to trigger the error + injection. Before this, please specify all necessary error + parameters. + +For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification +version 4.0, section 17.5. --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -843,6 +843,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry Format: <cyl>,<head>,<sect> + hest_disable [ACPI] + Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support, + corresponding firmware-first mode error processing + logic will be disabled. + highmem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] forces the highmem zone to have an exact size of <nn>. This works even on boxes that have no highmem otherwise. This also works to reduce highmem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
