Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] x86/mce/amd: Guard SMCA DESTAT access on non-SMCA machines
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 16:25:01 EST
On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 09:06:54PM +0100, William Roche wrote:
> Relaying the error to the guest doesn't only have a value to target a VM
> process but also deal with free memory or clean file cache memory impacted
> etc... Cases where a memory error may not crash the kernel can benefit to
> the VM too
I don't understand - what do you mean with "free memory or clean file cache
memory"?
> There is also a small typo in "pinpoint"
Ack, fixed.
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