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+ APEI Error INJection
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+EINJ provides a hardware error injection mechanism
+It is very useful for debugging and testing of other APEI and RAS features.
+
+To use EINJ, make sure the following are enabled in your kernel
+configuration:
+
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+CONFIG_ACPI_APEI
+CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_EINJ
+
+The user interface of EINJ is debug file system, under the
+directory apei/einj. The following files are provided.
+
+- available_error_type
+ Reading this file returns the error injection capability of the
+ platform, that is, which error types are supported. The error type
+ definition is as follow, the left field is the error type value, the
+ right field is 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 file contents are as above, except there are only the
+ available error type lines.
+
+- error_type
+ This file is used to set the error type value. The error type value
+ is defined in "available_error_type" description.
+
+- error_inject
+ Write any integer to this file to trigger the error
+ injection. Before this, please specify all necessary error
+ parameters.
+
+- param1
+ This file is used to set the first error parameter value. Effect of
+ parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
+ physical memory address.
+
+- param2
+ This file is used to set the second error parameter value. Effect of
+ parameter depends on error_type specified. For memory error, this is
+ physical memory address mask.
+
+For more information about EINJ, please refer to ACPI specification
+version 4.0, section 17.5.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt b/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
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@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Note: Only ACPI METHOD can be overridden, any other object types like
"Device", "OperationRegion", are not recognized.
Note: The same ACPI control method can be overridden for many times,
and it's always the latest one that used by Linux/kernel.
+Note: To get the ACPI debug object output (Store (AAAA, Debug)),
+ please run "echo 1 > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/aml_debug_output".
1. override an existing method
a) get the ACPI table via ACPI sysfs I/F. e.g. to get the DSDT,