linux-kernel - Re: patch kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree

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Message-ID: <4A4B76F3.6070604@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:47:15 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ying.huang@...el.com,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: patch kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch added to	2.6.30-stable
 tree

On 07/01/2009 05:18 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:41:54PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> Should be in struct vmx_vcpu; otherwise ack.
>>      
>
> Done
>
> ---
>
> KVM: Add VT-x machine check support v4
>
> VT-x needs an explicit MC vector intercept to handle machine checks in the
> hypervisor.
>
> It also has a special option to catch machine checks that happen
> during VT entry.
>
> Do these interceptions and forward them to the Linux machine check
> handler. Make it always look like user space is interrupted because
> the machine check handler treats kernel/user space differently.
>
> Thanks to Huang Ying and Jiang Yunhong for help and testing.
>
>    

Ack, thanks.  Stable boys, please use this instead of the patch from 
mainline and the two patches it dragged in.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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