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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM
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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 18:45 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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).

Yes. You are right. I will change this as you said, something like
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying

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