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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, entry: Switch stacks on a paranoid entry from
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:59:37 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:31:30AM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > Is this something I can try under KVM?
> 
> I don't know if KVM has a way to simulate a machine check event.

I've been thinking about it recently too - adding MCA functionality to
qemu/kvm could be very useful, especially the thresholding stuff, for
testing RAS kernel code.

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    Boris.

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