On 10/07/2010 10:15 PM, Huang Ying wrote:
Hi, Seto,
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 11:41 +0800, Hidetoshi Seto wrote:
(2010/10/07 3:10), Dean Nelson wrote:
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When I applied a patch to the guest's kernel which forces mce_ser to be
set, as if MCG_SER_P was set (see __mcheck_cpu_cap_init()), I found
that when the memory page was 'owned' by a guest process, the process
would be killed (if the page was dirty), and the guest would stay
running. The HWPoisoned page would be sidelined and not cause any more
issues.
Excellent.
So while guest kernel knows which page is poisoned, guest processes
are controlled not to touch the page.
... Therefore rebooting the vm and renewing kernel will lost the
information where is poisoned.
Yes. That is an issue. Dean suggests that make qemu-kvm to refuse reboot
the guest if there is poisoned page and ask for user to intervention. I
have another idea to replace the poison pages with good pages when
reboot, that is, recover without user intervention.
Hi, Huang, I much prefer the replacing of the poisoned pages with good
pages on reboot, over the refusing to reboot. So definitely go with
your idea.
Thanks,
Dean
