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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch uq/master 0/8] port qemu-kvm's MCE support
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To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:58:13AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Andreas F=E4rber (andreas.faerber@web.de) wrote:
> > Am 04.10.2010 um 20:54 schrieb Marcelo Tosatti:
> >=20
> > 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 err=
or.
> --

Thanks Chris.