HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
authorAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:50:17 +0000 (11:50 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:50:17 +0000 (11:50 +0200)
Useful for some testing scenarios, although specific testing is often
done better through MADV_POISON

This can be done with the x86 level MCE injector too, but this interface
allows it to do independently from low level x86 changes.

v2: Add module license (Haicheng Li)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
mm/Kconfig
mm/Makefile
mm/hwpoison-inject.c [new file with mode: 0644]

index ea2d8b6..4b4e57a 100644 (file)
@@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ config MEMORY_FAILURE
          even when some of its memory has uncorrected errors. This requires
          special hardware support and typically ECC memory.
 
+config HWPOISON_INJECT
+       tristate "Poison pages injector"
+       depends on MEMORY_FAILURE && DEBUG_KERNEL
+
 config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
        int "Turn on mmap() excess space trimming before booting"
        depends on !MMU
index dc2551e..713c9f8 100644 (file)
@@ -41,5 +41,6 @@ endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) += memory-failure.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT) += hwpoison-inject.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST) += kmemleak-test.o
diff --git a/mm/hwpoison-inject.c b/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..e1d8513
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/* Inject a hwpoison memory failure on a arbitary pfn */
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+static struct dentry *hwpoison_dir, *corrupt_pfn;
+
+static int hwpoison_inject(void *data, u64 val)
+{
+       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+               return -EPERM;
+       printk(KERN_INFO "Injecting memory failure at pfn %Lx\n", val);
+       return __memory_failure(val, 18, 0);
+}
+
+DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(hwpoison_fops, NULL, hwpoison_inject, "%lli\n");
+
+static void pfn_inject_exit(void)
+{
+       if (hwpoison_dir)
+               debugfs_remove_recursive(hwpoison_dir);
+}
+
+static int pfn_inject_init(void)
+{
+       hwpoison_dir = debugfs_create_dir("hwpoison", NULL);
+       if (hwpoison_dir == NULL)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       corrupt_pfn = debugfs_create_file("corrupt-pfn", 0600, hwpoison_dir,
+                                         NULL, &hwpoison_fops);
+       if (corrupt_pfn == NULL) {
+               pfn_inject_exit();
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       }
+       return 0;
+}
+
+module_init(pfn_inject_init);
+module_exit(pfn_inject_exit);
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");