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MCE APEI INJ testing cases
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Nov 6th, 2009
Jiajia Zheng
Start
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This test suite is based on apei-inj APEI haredware injection tool.
It's structure and usage are the same with soft-inj test suite.
To be root and invoke simple test driver on test configuration file as follow
drivers/simple/driver.sh config/simple_apei_ucr.conf
Test Dependencies
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MCE APEI INJ test suite has following dependencies on kernel and other tools:
* Make sure following configuration options are enabled in linux kernel:
CONFIG_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
* page-types:
A tool to query page types, which is accompanied with Linux kernel
source (2.6.32 or newer, $KERNEL_SRC/Documentation/vm/page-types.c).
For detail, please see 3.4 in doc/howto.txt.
* simple-process:
APEI hardware injection will inject an error to a page used by this simple-process. Intall simple-process.
cd mce-test/tools/simple_process
make