From ea149b36c7f511d17dd89fee734cb09778a91fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:31:00 +0200 Subject: x86, mce: add basic error injection infrastructure Allow user programs to write mce records into /dev/mcelog. When they do that a fake machine check is triggered to test the machine check code. This uses the MCE MSR wrappers added earlier. The implementation is straight forward. There is a struct mce record per CPU and the MCE MSR accesses get data from there if there is valid data injected there. This allows to test the machine check code relatively realistically because only the lowest layer of hardware access is intercepted. The test suite and injector are available at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-test.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/cpu/mce/mce-inject.git Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index a148e7ac0d83..e25b6358fbe3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -835,6 +835,14 @@ config X86_MCE_THRESHOLD bool default y +config X86_MCE_INJECT + depends on X86_NEW_MCE + tristate "Machine check injector support" + ---help--- + Provide support for injecting machine checks for testing purposes. + If you don't know what a machine check is and you don't do kernel + QA it is safe to say n. + config X86_MCE_NONFATAL tristate "Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4" depends on X86_OLD_MCE -- cgit v1.2.3