Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] ACPI/APEI/EINJ: Allow memory error injection to NVDIMM

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Oct 25 2015 - 06:45:26 EST


On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:53:59PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> In the case of memory error injection, einj_error_inject() checks
> if a target address is regular RAM. Update this check to add a call
> to region_intersects_pmem() to verify if a target address range is
> NVDIMM. This allows injecting a memory error to both RAM and NVDIMM
> for testing.
>
> Also, the current RAM check, page_is_ram(), is replaced with
> region_intersects_ram() so that it can verify a target address
> range with the requested size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

...

> @@ -545,10 +545,14 @@ static int einj_error_inject(u32 type, u32 flags, u64 param1, u64 param2,
> /*
> * Disallow crazy address masks that give BIOS leeway to pick
> * injection address almost anywhere. Insist on page or
> - * better granularity and that target address is normal RAM.
> + * better granularity and that target address is normal RAM or
> + * NVDIMM.
> */
> - pfn = PFN_DOWN(param1 & param2);
> - if (!page_is_ram(pfn) || ((param2 & PAGE_MASK) != PAGE_MASK))
> + base_addr = param1 & param2;
> + size = (~param2) + 1;

Just a minor nitpick: please separate assignments from the if-statement
here with a \n.

> + if (((region_intersects_ram(base_addr, size) != REGION_INTERSECTS) &&
> + (region_intersects_pmem(base_addr, size) != REGION_INTERSECTS)) ||
> + ((param2 & PAGE_MASK) != PAGE_MASK))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> inject:

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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