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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2012-03-30 16:12:23 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2012-03-30 16:14:02 -0400
commit73f05330497b98c45d157b7d0c60673798bb4c3b (patch)
tree67fc16c0f55c482882aea49eaa1d8d95b23722e0 /Documentation
parent1a05e4678724c4a5fe7b9e4e208b616dfe8c3a32 (diff)
parent8cdde126aa60ced0d63ff137378e09dd01dfadda (diff)
Merge branch 'apei' into release
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c This was a conflict between 15afae604651d4e17652d2ffb56f5e36f991cfef (CPI, APEI: Fix incorrect APEI register bit width check and usage) and 653f4b538f66d37db560e0f56af08117136d29b7 (ACPICA: Expand OSL memory read/write interfaces to 64 bits) The former changed a parameter in the call to acpi_os_read_memory64() and the later replaced all calls to acpi_os_read_memory64() with calls to acpi_os_read_memory(). Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
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--- a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
parameter depends on error_type specified.
+- notrigger
+ The EINJ mechanism is a two step process. First inject the error, then
+ perform some actions to trigger it. Setting "notrigger" to 1 skips the
+ trigger phase, which *may* allow the user to cause the error in some other
+ context by a simple access to the cpu, memory location, or device that is
+ the target of the error injection. Whether this actually works depends
+ on what operations the BIOS actually includes in the trigger phase.
+
BIOS versions based in the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
to control where the errors are injected. Your BIOS may support an
extension (enabled with the param_extension=1 module parameter, or