On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 02:01:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 April 2017 at 14:00, Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alternatively we should mark a pending error notification to the guest > > in KVM, so that when the guest boots it gets something like an SError > > instead, given that presumably the guest wrote the weird value. Except > > of course if the problem is caused by QEMU fudging with the register > > value for the PENDBASER. > > If we have scope for complaining at the guest we should do it at > the point where the guest sets PENDBASER in the first place... > Is that what the hardware would have done? Also, userspace could restore a bogus value in the PENDBASER (even though the guest wrote something sane), so maybe we should just keep this as is and handle it nicely in QEMU? Thanks, -Christoffer > thanks > -- PMM