Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] MCA injection (debug) code

[Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@xxxxxxx>]

Frank van der Linden wrote:
> The attached patch adds the capability for dom0 to inject MCA errors 
> into Xen. The basic idea is to add specific MSR values that will be read 
> by the polling code or the #MC handler. On AMD cpus, the MSRs can 
> actually be written, on Intel CPUs, interpose code is used to fake the 
> MSR values.
> Since actual hardware problems are rare, it's convenient to be able to 
> test the code like this. We run our testsuite using this code. Others 
> have expressed some interest in this, so that's why I'm submitting this 
> patch.
> - Frank
Btw, this patch is on top of the main patch, but since that one is a bit 
big, it looks like it's stuck in the mailing list queue (probably 
waiting for approval).
- Frank

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