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From: Gavin Maltby <Gavin.Maltby@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] RAS(Part II)--MCA enalbing in XEN
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:30:32 +1100
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Christoph Egger wrote:

> Mostly. Regarding 2) I want like to discuss first how to handle errors
> impacting multiple contiguous physical pages which are non-contigous
> in guest physical space.

I can't think of any such error types.  ECC checkwords don't span
page boundaries, so you only ever get an error at a time
affecting one small part of one page.  That physically adjacent
pages have both had errors would come our in the wash, but
they'd be processed and recognised individually.

Gavin