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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 17:24:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005202453.GA6319@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101005185813.GC11396@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:58:13AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andreas Färber (andreas.faerber@web.de) wrote:
> > Am 04.10.2010 um 20:54 schrieb Marcelo Tosatti:
> > 
> > I assume something went wrong with your cover letter here. It
> > would've been nice to see MCE spelled out or summarized for those of
> > us that don't speak x86.

Sorry about that. Will improve on next submission.

> It would help.  The acronym is Machine Check Exception.  The patchset
> should allow (on newer Intel x86 hw with a newer linux kernel) a class of
> memory errors delivered to the host OS as MCEs to be propagated to the
> guest OS.  Without the patchset, the qemu process assoicated with the
> memory where the error took place would be killed.  With the patchset,
> qemu can propagate the error into the guest and allow the guest to kill
> only the process within the guest that is assocated with the memory error.
> --

Thanks Chris.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 18:54 [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 1/8] signalfd compatibility Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 2/8] iothread: use signalfd Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 3/8] Expose thread_id in info cpus Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 4/8] kvm: x86: add mce support Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 5/8] Export qemu_ram_addr_from_host Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 12:57   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-05 20:13     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 20:48       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 6/8] Add RAM -> physical addr mapping in MCE simulation Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 7/8] MCE: Relay UCR MCE to guest Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06  1:10   ` [Qemu-devel] " Hidetoshi Seto
2010-10-06 16:02     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06  1:58   ` Hidetoshi Seto
2010-10-06 16:05     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 18:10       ` Dean Nelson
2010-10-07  3:41         ` Hidetoshi Seto
2010-10-07 15:23           ` Dean Nelson
2010-10-08  3:15           ` Huang Ying
2010-10-08  5:54             ` Hidetoshi Seto
2010-10-08 12:02             ` Dean Nelson
2010-10-08  2:50       ` Huang Ying
2010-10-04 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 8/8] Add savevm/loadvm support for MCE Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-05 16:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support Andreas Färber
2010-10-05 18:58   ` Chris Wright
2010-10-05 20:24     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2010-10-06 17:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 1/8] signalfd compatibility Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 2/8] iothread: use signalfd Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 3/8] Expose thread_id in info cpus Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 4/8] kvm: x86: add mce support Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 19:32     ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 5/8] Export qemu_ram_addr_from_host Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 6/8] Add RAM -> physical addr mapping in MCE simulation Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 7/8] MCE: Relay UCR MCE to guest Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 17:34   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 8/8] Add savevm/loadvm support for MCE Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31   ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support (v3) Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/8] signalfd compatibility Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/8] iothread: use signalfd Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 3/8] Expose thread_id in info cpus Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 4/8] kvm: x86: add mce support Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 5/8] Export qemu_ram_addr_from_host Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 6/8] Add RAM -> physical addr mapping in MCE simulation Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 7/8] MCE: Relay UCR MCE to guest Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-11 18:31     ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 8/8] Add savevm/loadvm support for MCE Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-14 10:25     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support (v3) Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 16:21       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-17  9:32     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support (v3 resend) Avi Kivity

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