Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86: machine check exception handling

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/6/07 08:47, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> What issue do you think ExtInts will introduce? A crash before we get a
>> fatal error dump onto the Xen console? This argument seems more than a
>> little dubious to me.
> 
> Why - such a crash would be *very* difficult to debug, as you likely wouldn't
> be able to guess the original reason.

Random unrecoverable hardware errors which affect execution of the lowest
levels of your supervisor software will tend to have that effect. :-)

 -- Keir



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