Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Don't try to change poison pages to uncacheable in a guest
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat May 16 2020 - 11:02:48 EST
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 02:47:42PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> There is only one actual machine check. But the VMM simulates a second
> machine check to the guest when the guest tries to access the poisoned
> page.
If the VMM unmaps the bad page, why doesn't the guest get a #PF instead
injected by the VMM instead of latter injecting a second #MCE?
If the guest tries to access an unmapped page, it should get a #PF, I'd
expect.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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