RE: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] RAS(Part II)--MCA enalbing in XEN

["Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>]

> That's needed anyways for example to support migration between different
> types of CPUs. The DomU really cannot take a specific CPU type
> for granted or rather has to assume some fallback CPU. Also
> for virtualization
> it's a common case that guests run very old OS, so it's better to give
> them the oldest possible events too.
> 
> So it's generally better to inject generic events, not just
> blindly forward.

Andi, what's the meaning of "generic event"? Do you mean the option 3, i.e. 
some abstract event like page offlie, killing current execution event?
Or you mean translate physical MSR value to guest-aware MSR value?

Thanks
Yunhong Jiang

> 
> Only for Dom0 which does logging the physical hardware needs
> to be described
> correctly.
> 
> -Andi
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