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author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200 |
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committer | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2009-09-16 11:50:17 +0200 |
commit | 9893e49d64a4874ea67849ee2cfbf3f3d6817573 (patch) | |
tree | 2bf3c7950cdae1c1ed03a513a6690d95f0c02d5c /mm/madvise.c | |
parent | f590f333fb15444d2971f979d434ecad56c09698 (diff) | |
download | lwn-9893e49d64a4874ea67849ee2cfbf3f3d6817573.tar.gz lwn-9893e49d64a4874ea67849ee2cfbf3f3d6817573.zip |
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
Impact: optional, useful for debugging
Add a new madvice sub command to inject poison for some
pages in a process' address space. This is useful for
testing the poison page handling.
This patch can allow root to tie up large amounts of memory.
I got feedback from container developers and they didn't see any
problem.
v2: Use write flag for get_user_pages to make sure to always get
a fresh page
v3: Don't request write mapping (Fengguang Wu)
v4: Move MADV_* number to avoid conflict with KSM (Hugh Dickins)
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/madvise.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/madvise.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 76eb4193acdd..8dbd38b8e4a4 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -207,6 +207,32 @@ static long madvise_remove(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return error; } +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE +/* + * Error injection support for memory error handling. + */ +static int madvise_hwpoison(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) +{ + int ret = 0; + + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) { + struct page *p; + int ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, 1, + 0, 0, &p, NULL); + if (ret != 1) + return ret; + printk(KERN_INFO "Injecting memory failure for page %lx at %lx\n", + page_to_pfn(p), start); + /* Ignore return value for now */ + __memory_failure(page_to_pfn(p), 0, 1); + put_page(p); + } + return ret; +} +#endif + static long madvise_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int behavior) @@ -307,6 +333,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(madvise, unsigned long, start, size_t, len_in, int, behavior) int write; size_t len; +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE + if (behavior == MADV_HWPOISON) + return madvise_hwpoison(start, start+len_in); +#endif if (!madvise_behavior_valid(behavior)) return error; |