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From: Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MCA injection (debug) code
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:33:35 -0600
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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