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@@ -92,16 +92,62 @@ PR_MCE_KILL_GET
Testing:
-madvise(MADV_POISON, ....)
+madvise(MADV_HWPOISON, ....)
(as root)
Poison a page in the process for testing
hwpoison-inject module through debugfs
- /sys/debug/hwpoison/corrupt-pfn
-Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file
+/sys/debug/hwpoison/
+corrupt-pfn
+
+Inject hwpoison fault at PFN echoed into this file. This does
+some early filtering to avoid corrupted unintended pages in test suites.
+
+unpoison-pfn
+
+Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This
+way a page can be reused again.
+This only works for Linux injected failures, not for real
+memory failures.
+
+Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
+kernel versions
+
+corrupt-filter-dev-major
+corrupt-filter-dev-minor
+
+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-memcg
+
+Limit injection to pages owned by memgroup. Specified by inode number
+of the memcg.
+
+Example:
+ mkdir /cgroup/hwpoison
+
+ usemem -m 100 -s 1000 &
+ echo `jobs -p` > /cgroup/hwpoison/tasks
+
+ memcg_ino=$(ls -id /cgroup/hwpoison | cut -f1 -d' ')
+ echo $memcg_ino > /debug/hwpoison/corrupt-filter-memcg
+
+ page-types -p `pidof init` --hwpoison # shall do nothing
+ page-types -p `pidof usemem` --hwpoison # poison its pages
+
+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