Re: [PATCH-RESEND] x86: add IRQ context simulation in modulemce-inject

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Dec 09 2011 - 02:25:39 EST



* Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> mce-inject provides a mechanism to simulate errors so that test
> scripts can check for correct operation of the kernel without
> requiring any specialized hardware to create rare events.
>
> The existing code can simulate events in normal process context
> and also in NMI context - but not in IRQ context. This patch
> fills that gap.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me. Will show up in the RAS tree i guess?

Thanks,

Ingo
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