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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Xen/MCE: Abort live migration when vMCE occur



On 19/10/12 21:32, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
Wouldn't your patch 5 be sufficient to deal with this case?  It seems
like the broken page would get marked as such, and then get marked
broken on the receiving side, wouldn't it?

  -George
Seems no, patch 4 is to handle the case mce occur during migration --> under such 
case the broken page would mapped (at that time the page is a good page) and copy to 
target; While patch 5 is to handle the case mce occur beofre migration --> under 
such case the broken page would not mapped and so would not copy to target.

In the "during migration", there are actually two cases to consider:
1. The page breaks before the domain save code maps it.
2. The page breaks after the domain save code has mapped it once

Patch 5 will detect a broken page when it tries to map it, and send it as type "broken", without data.

So in the case of #1, it will be taken care of by patch 5 without any changes.

In the case of #2, it seems like we could probably modify patch 5 to handle it. If we mark a page dirty, then the domain save code will try to send it again. When it tries to map it, it will discover that the page has been marked "broken", and will send it as a "broken" page, without data. As long as the domain restore code marks the already-received page as "broken" when it receives this message, then everything should work as normal.

What do you think?

 -George

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