On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:30 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:45:32 -0800, Vipul Jain said:

> I would like to enable softlockup and hardlockup option in Linux kernel
> and would like to test it to make sure that when soft and hard lockup
> condition arises we do see kernel taking configured action. Hence was
> wondering if there is any tool to do the same (basically injecting the
> errors).

Build your kernel with CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC and/or
CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC and then stick an infinite loop
somewhere in the kernel. See lib/Kconfig.debug under 'Debug Lockups and Hangs'.

Hi Valids,

I am able to configure the kernel with soft and hard lockup flags but now I would like to generate and hard and soft lockup event and verify it and was wondering if we have any tool in place that I can use, if not, any guidance of how to go about testing it will be great.

Regards,

Vipul.