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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] mce/copyin: fix to not SIGBUS when copying from user hits poison
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 07:46:49AM -0700, Jue Wang wrote:
> I can see this is useful in other types of domains, e.g., on multi-tenant cloud
> servers where many VMs are collocated on the same host,
> with proper recovery + live migration, a single MCE would only affect a single
> VM at most.
>
> Another type of generic use case may be services that can tolerate
> abrupt crash,
> i.e., they periodically save checkpoints to persistent storage or are stateless
> services in nature and are managed by some process manager to automatically
> restart and resume from where the work was left at when crashed.

Yap, thanks for those.

So I do see a disconnect between us doing those features in the kernel
and not really seeing how people use them. So this helps, I guess the VM
angle will become important real soon - if not already - so hopefully
we'll get more feedback in the future.

Thx.

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Boris.

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