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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 09/12] x86/vmce, tools/libxl: expose LMCE capability in guest MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP



>>> On 20.03.17 at 19:27, <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Haozhong Zhang writes ("[PATCH v2 09/12] x86/vmce, tools/libxl: expose LMCE 
> capability in guest MSR_IA32_MCG_CAP"):
>> +=head3 x86
>> +
>> +=over 4
>> +
>> +=item B<mca_caps=[ "CAP", "CAP", ... ]>
>> +
>> +(HVM only) Enable MCA capabilities besides default ones enabled
>> +by Xen hypervisor for the HVM domain. "CAP" can be one in the
>> +following list:
> 
> Would it be incorrect to replace references to "MCA" with "MCE" (eg,
> changing "mca_caps" to "mce_caps" here) ?

MCE (Machine Check Exception) is only part of MCA, so I don't
think the terms can be used interchangeably. Namely I think
mce_caps would be wrong.

Jan


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