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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2009-12-16 12:19:59 +0100
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HWPOISON: add page flags filter
When specified, only poison pages if ((page_flags & mask) == value). - corrupt-filter-flags-mask - corrupt-filter-flags-value This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages. Strictly speaking, the buddy pages requires taking zone lock, to avoid setting PG_hwpoison on a "was buddy but now allocated to someone" page. However we can just do nothing because we set PG_locked in the beginning, this prevents the page allocator from allocating it to someone. (It will BUG() on the unexpected PG_locked, which is fine for hwpoison testing.) [AK: Add select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to satisfy dependency] CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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index 4ef7bb30d15c..f454d3cd4d60 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -123,6 +123,16 @@ 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-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
x86 has mce-inject, mce-test