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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2009-04-29 19:31:00 +0200
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-05-28 09:24:14 -0700
commitea149b36c7f511d17dd89fee734cb09778a91fa0 (patch)
tree04466a9b92dc5ce01c2ab8661165e3564d99f5c1 /arch/x86/Kconfig
parent5f8c1a54cab6f449fe04d42d0661bc796fa4e73e (diff)
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 <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index a148e7ac0d8..e25b6358fbe 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