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author | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2010-03-19 11:33:44 +1100 |
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committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2010-03-19 11:33:44 +1100 |
commit | a764563df6ef19fe7a6b337fbb5f350a4b55c007 (patch) | |
tree | 51910bd538f4843635fe21a72fca69c57f737961 /Documentation | |
parent | 3ced60656fea83907264f822144c7bd5290d08b6 (diff) | |
parent | 239a8d732a95ad41f40e1f4c27c2895a881f4e9d (diff) |
Merge remote branch 'acpi/test'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt | 49 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 55 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt b/Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..438ef33c8fd0 --- /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. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e4cbca58536c..8d9b80910cad 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -143,11 +143,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt } + Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt } force -- enable ACPI if default was off off -- disable ACPI if default was on noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing - ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not strictly ACPI specification compliant. rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT @@ -347,6 +346,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. + apei.hest_disable= [ACPI] + Disable Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) support, + corresponding firmware-first mode error processing + logic will be disabled. + apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } |