linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:45:15 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM

Huang Ying wrote:
>> I'm okay with an ioctl to setup MCE, but just make sure userspace has 
>> all the information to know what the kernel can do rather than the 
>> try-and-see-if-it-works approach.  We can publish this information via 
>> KVM_CAP things, or via another ioctl (see KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2 for 
>> an example).
>>     
>
> Yes. MCE support should be published by KVM_CAP_MCE and other features
> can be published via reading the default value of MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP.
>   

A problem with this is that you can only read an MSR after a vcpu has 
been created.  But if you're writing a program to detect what features 
are available (for example, when checking features common to a migration 
pool), you don't want to create a vpcu (you could, but it's hacky).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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