On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, Avi Kivity wrote about "Re: [PATCH 9/24] Implement VMCLEAR": > As far as the processor is concerned, there is no end to physical > memory. The VMCLEAR will write some stuff out, and the chipset will > throw it away. So isn't what you're saying that for accurate VMCLEAR emulation, I should simply ignore this error and have VMCLEAR do nothing in this case? > However, eventually the guest will crash and burn, > better to take it out in a controlled way. Isn't it concievable that some poorly-written hypervisor actually VMCLEARs something beyond available memory, and doesn't crash because it never tries to actually use that memory later? Do you think it's a good idea to kill the guest immediately, in anticipation of a crash that will most likely come later? Thanks, Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Aug 5 2010, 25 Av 5770 nyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Tact is the art of making a point without http://nadav.harel.org.il |making an enemy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
