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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:21:27 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
CC: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] Add MCE support to KVM
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Regardless of the KVM interface for this, to go upstream to QEMU, this 
> needs a TCG implementation which means the logic must be duplicated in 
> userspace.  In particular, this is because a user-visible command is 
> being introduced in the monitor.

Definitely.

>
> So Avi, regardless of what interface is chosen for KVM, can you hold 
> off applying these patches until there is a TCG implementation?  
> Otherwise, we'll be playing catchup between kvm-userspace and upstream 
> QEMU forever.

I have a feeling we will anyway, but that's no reason to increase the 
gap.  Huang, can you generate a version for qemu/tcg?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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