Re: Hardware Error Kernel Mini-Summit

[Ingo Molnar]

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

> > 3) Another new perf feature of interest is 'perf 
> > inject' (this too went upstream today): to inject 
> > artificial events into the stream of events. This 
> > mechanism could be used to simulate rare error 
> > conditions and to test out policy reactions 
> > systematically - an important part of system error 
> > recovery testing.
> 
> Simulated errors are handy for testing the very top 
> level of the s/w stack. But real errors are better. 
> There's some APEI code in Len's tree that can inject 
> real errors (on systems with the right BIOS hooks 
> enabled).

Agreed, hardware assisted error injection is by far the 
best and most complete solution.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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