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SubjectRe: patch kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree
On 07/01/2009 04:24 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> KVM: Add VT-x machine check support v3
>
> 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.
>
> Cc: ying.huang@intel.com
>
> v2: Handle machine checks still in interrupt off context
> to avoid problems on preemptible kernels.
> v3: Handle old style 32bit and make fully standalone
>
>
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.30-ak.orig/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ linux-2.6.30-ak/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
> unsigned long dr6;
> unsigned long dr7;
> unsigned long eff_db[KVM_NR_DB_REGS];
> +
> + u32 exit_reason;
> };
>
>

Should be in struct vmx_vcpu; otherwise ack.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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