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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH -v6] QEMU: MCE: Add MCE simulation to
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Hi, Anthony,

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 02:12 +0800, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi Huang,
> 
> Huang Ying wrote:
> > - MCE features are initialized when VCPU is intialized according to CPUID.
> > - A monitor command "mce" is added to inject a MCE.
> > - A new interrupt mask: CPU_INTERRUPT_MCE is added to inject the MCE.
> >   
> 
> Can you post some instructions on how to test this functionality?  For 
> instance, I believe Linux is capable of delivering a SIGBUS to a process 
> based on certain MCE's.  I'm not sure what the steps would be though to 
> create a process using a particular physical memory address, generate a 
> MCE for that address, and then inspect that the process received the signal.
> 
> Are you testing the patches via something like that?

It seems that MCE patch has not been merged into qemu.git yet. Does it
failed in some tests in stage?

Best Regards,
Huang Ying