RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] X86 MCE: Add SRAR handler

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 30.09.11 at 11:42, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 30.09.11 at 10:21, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Executing guest code will not satisfy the check
>>> if ( !(gstatus & MCG_STATUS_RIPV) && !guest_mode(regs))     return -1;
>>> so it would not panic system.
>> 
>> Exactly. But it should when the prefetch was to hypervisor code.
>> 
> 
> Wouldn't processor refresh instruction prefetch queue under such case?

That's a question that you are better positioned to answer than me.
But the SRAR errors being a sub-category of uncorrected errors I
would think it can't be that simple.

Jan


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