On Mer, 2006-03-22 at 17:23 -0800, Kalyan Rajasekharuni wrote:
> I would like to trigger a Machine Check Exception soley by a
> 'software mechanism' on my x86 box. The idea is to test my
> machine check exception handler thoroughly. I want a reliable
> way which will generate this exception every time when I run
> the software code snippet.
You will need to ask the CPU vendor I think. You can trigger MCEs on
some x86s by exploiting obscure hardware flaws in supervisor mode
(notably with mismatched memory cache types for the same page) but I
don't know of any way to make that predictable.
Alan
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