linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] PCI: PCIE AER: Document for PCIE AER software error injection

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Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:45:31 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] PCI: PCIE AER: Document for PCIE AER software error
 injection

This patch add a minimal HOWTO for PCIE AER software error injection
in Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

---
 Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/pcieaer-howto.txt
@@ -246,3 +246,24 @@ with the PCI Express AER Root driver?
 A: It could call the helper functions to enable AER in devices and
 cleanup uncorrectable status register. Pls. refer to section 3.3.
 
+
+4. Software error injection
+
+Debugging PCIE AER error recovery code is quite difficult because it
+is hard to trigger real hardware errors. Software based error
+injection can be used to fake various kinds of PCIE errors.
+
+First you should enable PCIE AER software error injection in kernel
+configuration, that is, following item should be in your .config.
+
+CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=y or CONFIG_PCIEAER_INJECT=m
+
+After reboot with new kernel or insert the module, a device file named
+/dev/aer_inject should be created.
+
+Then, you need a user space tool named aer-inject, which can be gotten
+from:
+    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/yhuang/
+
+More information about aer-inject can be found in the document comes
+with its source code.


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