Re: [Xen-devel] credit scheduler issues in 64bit hypervisor

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 Jul 2006, at 02:51, Li, Xin B wrote:

> I really don't like crashing on such errors, but yes, this small 
> changes
> to VMCLEAR/VMPTRLD make no sense at this point.
> For long term, we need follow IA32 SPEC to handle all the faliure VMX
> instruction cases, basically we should crash the domain not the system,
> and give some basic description.
Are there any cases where the domain itself can cause those 
instructions to fail? I agree that we should have a function that reads 
and decodes the reason for failure, and maybe also dumps other 
interesting state, but BUG still seems the right failure mode to me.
 -- Keir


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