- The EINJ 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 in the ACPI 4.0 specification have limited options
-to control 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 using the ACPI 5.0 specification have more control over
-the target of the injection. For processor related errors (type 0x1,
-0x2 and 0x4) the APICID of the target should be provided using the
-param1 file in apei/einj. 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:
+
+ 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: