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- APEI Error INJection
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism. It is very useful
- for debugging and testing APEI and RAS features in general.
- You need to check whether your BIOS supports EINJ first. For that, look
- for early boot messages similar to this one:
- ACPI: EINJ 0x000000007370A000 000150 (v01 INTEL 00000001 INTL 00000001)
- which shows that the BIOS is exposing an EINJ table - it is the
- mechanism through which the injection is done.
- Alternatively, look in /sys/firmware/acpi/tables for an "EINJ" file,
- which is a different representation of the same thing.
- It doesn't necessarily mean that EINJ is not supported if those above
- don't exist: before you give up, go into BIOS setup to see if the BIOS
- has an option to enable error injection. Look for something called WHEA
- or similar. Often, you need to enable an ACPI5 support option prior, in
- order to see the APEI,EINJ,... functionality supported and exposed by
- the BIOS menu.
- To use EINJ, make sure the following are options enabled in your kernel
- configuration:
- CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
- CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
- CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ
- The EINJ user interface is in <debugfs mount point>/apei/einj.
- The following files belong to it:
- - available_error_type
- This file shows which error types are supported:
- Error Type Value 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 the file contents are as above, except present are only
- the available error types.
- - error_type
- Set the value of the error type being injected. Possible error types
- are defined in the file available_error_type above.
- - error_inject
- Write any integer to this file to trigger the error injection. Make
- sure you have specified all necessary error parameters, i.e. this
- write should be the last step when injecting errors.
- - flags
- Present for kernel versions 3.13 and above. Used to specify which
- of param{1..4} are valid and should be used by the firmware during
- injection. Value is a bitmask as specified in ACPI5.0 spec for the
- SET_ERROR_TYPE_WITH_ADDRESS data structure:
- Bit 0 - Processor APIC field valid (see param3 below).
- Bit 1 - Memory address and mask valid (param1 and param2).
- Bit 2 - PCIe (seg,bus,dev,fn) valid (see param4 below).
- If set to zero, legacy behavior is mimicked where the type of
- injection specifies just one bit set, and param1 is multiplexed.
- - param1
- This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Its effect
- depends on the error type specified in error_type. For example, if
- error type is memory related type, the param1 should be a valid
- physical memory address. [Unless "flag" is set - see above]
- - param2
- Same use as param1 above. For example, if error type is of memory
- related type, then param2 should be a physical memory address mask.
- Linux requires page or narrower granularity, say, 0xfffffffffffff000.
- - param3
- Used when the 0x1 bit is set in "flags" to specify the APIC id
- - param4
- Used when the 0x4 bit is set in "flags" to specify target PCIe device
- - notrigger
- The error injection 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 on the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
- in controlling where the errors are injected. Your BIOS may support an
- extension (enabled with the param_extension=1 module parameter, or boot
- command line einj.param_extension=1). This allows the address and mask
- for memory injections to be specified by the param1 and param2 files in
- apei/einj.
- BIOS versions based on the ACPI 5.0 specification have more control over
- the target of the injection. For processor-related errors (type 0x1, 0x2
- and 0x4), you can set flags to 0x3 (param3 for bit 0, and param1 and
- param2 for bit 1) so that you have more information added to the error
- signature being injected. The actual data passed is this:
- memory_address = param1;
- memory_address_range = param2;
- apicid = param3;
- pcie_sbdf = param4;
- For memory errors (type 0x8, 0x10 and 0x20) the address is set using
- param1 with a mask in param2 (0x0 is equivalent to all ones). For PCI
- express errors (type 0x40, 0x80 and 0x100) the segment, bus, device and
- function are specified using param1:
- 31 24 23 16 15 11 10 8 7 0
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- | segment | bus | device | function | reserved |
- +-------------------------------------------------+
- Anyway, you get the idea, if there's doubt just take a look at the code
- in drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c.
- An ACPI 5.0 BIOS may also allow vendor-specific errors to be injected.
- In this case a file named vendor will contain identifying information
- from the BIOS that hopefully will allow an application wishing to use
- the vendor-specific extension to tell that they are running on a BIOS
- that supports it. All vendor extensions have the 0x80000000 bit set in
- error_type. A file vendor_flags controls the interpretation of param1
- and param2 (1 = PROCESSOR, 2 = MEMORY, 4 = PCI). See your BIOS vendor
- documentation for details (and expect changes to this API if vendors
- creativity in using this feature expands beyond our expectations).
- An error injection example:
- # cd /sys/kernel/debug/apei/einj
- # cat available_error_type # See which errors can be injected
- 0x00000002 Processor Uncorrectable non-fatal
- 0x00000008 Memory Correctable
- 0x00000010 Memory Uncorrectable non-fatal
- # echo 0x12345000 > param1 # Set memory address for injection
- # echo $((-1 << 12)) > param2 # Mask 0xfffffffffffff000 - anywhere in this page
- # echo 0x8 > error_type # Choose correctable memory error
- # echo 1 > error_inject # Inject now
- You should see something like this in dmesg:
- [22715.830801] EDAC sbridge MC3: HANDLING MCE MEMORY ERROR
- [22715.834759] EDAC sbridge MC3: CPU 0: Machine Check Event: 0 Bank 7: 8c00004000010090
- [22715.834759] EDAC sbridge MC3: TSC 0
- [22715.834759] EDAC sbridge MC3: ADDR 12345000 EDAC sbridge MC3: MISC 144780c86
- [22715.834759] EDAC sbridge MC3: PROCESSOR 0:306e7 TIME 1422553404 SOCKET 0 APIC 0
- [22716.616173] EDAC MC3: 1 CE memory read error on CPU_SrcID#0_Channel#0_DIMM#0 (channel:0 slot:0 page:0x12345 offset:0x0 grain:32 syndrome:0x0 - area:DRAM err_code:0001:0090 socket:0 channel_mask:1 rank:0)
- For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
- version 4.0, section 17.5 and ACPI 5.0, section 18.6.
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