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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.

  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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