From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:26:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F9582C2.6020009@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE8DF0795D48FD4CA783C40EC8292335168D26@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 04/23/2012 08:43 AM, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>
> and, hypervisor only record error into its mc_info cookie (in its
> own format), it doesn't care what's dom0's version and how dom0 translate it
> -- that's dom0's business. The role of hypervisor is virtual 'platform',
> just like h/w platform don't care what linux version runs over it.
>
And this is the *OTHER* problem with Xen. A platform is only a platform
if it is documented. There are a number of PV hypervisors which *are*
documented in detail, but Xen is not one of them.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-23 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 13:29 [PATCH 1/3] Add mcelog support for xen platform Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-20 18:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-20 20:00 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-21 4:14 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-21 10:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 2:18 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 6:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 15:06 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 15:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-23 16:23 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 16:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 16:17 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-23 15:27 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 15:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 16:17 ` Luck, Tony
2012-04-23 16:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 15:43 ` Liu, Jinsong
2012-04-23 16:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-23 17:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-23 16:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-23 17:03 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-04-23 17:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-24 8:27 ` Andi Kleen
2012-04-25 8:11 ` Ingo Molnar
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