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

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

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@hpe.com>
> ---
>  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.

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