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SubjectRe: [PATCH -v2] Add MCE support to KVM
Huang Ying wrote:
> The related MSRs are emulated. MCE capability is exported via
> extension KVM_CAP_MCE and ioctl KVM_X86_GET_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED. A new
> vcpu ioctl command KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE is used to setup MCE emulation
> such as the mcg_cap. MCE is injected via vcpu ioctl command
> KVM_X86_SET_MCE. Extended machine-check state (MCG_EXT_P) and CMCI are
> not simulated.
>

Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't this be implemented entirely
within userspace? There's nothing VT/SVM specific about this. If the
issue is setting these MSRs from userspace via KVM_SET_MSRS isn't
enough, perhaps we should add userspace MSR handling.

Also, if you implement the MSR logic in userspace, it's pretty simple to
make it work in the non-TCG case which will be a requirement for
upstream merging.

Regards,

Anthony LIguori



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