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Re: Interrupts in OoO

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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) posted:

> MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
> >scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) posted:
> >
> >> MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
> >-----------------------------
> >> >> In my terminology I have Exceptions, Interrupts, and Errors.
> >> >> I take all the well defined stuff and put it in the Exception and
> >> >> Interrupt buckets, and take all the weird stuff and call it Errors.
> >> >
> >> >To a very large extent I agree with you. The things you call errors
> >> >I call Checks. Checks are never supposed to happen {{like late store
> >> >data ECC fails}}.
> >> 
> >> If it is "never supposed to happen", why bother to check at all...
> >
> >Guest OS can run as if uncorrectable ECC can never happen. So, to
> >Guest OS it is never supposed to happen, and Guest OS is not setup
> >to deal with the problem if it does.
> >
> >HyperVisor cannot run banking applications with UC ECC, whereas some
> >real-time control might be able to; so you punt it all the way up the
> >privilege ladder.
> > 
> >> For RAS reasons, if nothing else, one must assume that anything
> >> may happen.
> >
> >But, still, Guest OS should not be burdened with those checks.
> 
> Nor should the hypervisor.  All of which are generally hardware
> agnostic (KVM, XEN, VMWare, et alia) for most everything except
> the virtualization mechanics (AMD's SVM or Intel's VM capabilities).

So, it all one has is {user, Guest, Host, Hyper}: who SHOULD be burdened
with creating responses to things that are not supposed to happen but do ??

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Re: Interrupts in OoO (was: Microarchitectural support for counting) quadibloc@invalid.com (John Savard) - 2026-10-23 23:57 +0000
  Re: Interrupts in OoO Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2026-10-23 21:12 -0400
  Re: Interrupts in OoO (was: Microarchitectural support for counting) MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-24 19:20 +0000
    Re: Interrupts in OoO (was: Microarchitectural support for counting) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-10-25 15:53 +0000
      Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-26 11:06 -0400
        Re: Interrupts in OoO Robert Finch <robfi680@gmail.com> - 2026-10-26 13:17 -0400
          Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-26 17:03 -0400
            Re: Interrupts in OoO "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-10-26 14:14 -0700
              Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-28 14:39 -0400
                Re: Interrupts in OoO "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-10-28 15:10 -0700
                Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-29 14:50 -0400
            Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-27 16:48 +0000
        Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-27 16:35 +0000
          Re: Interrupts in OoO scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-10-27 18:33 +0000
            Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-27 21:07 +0000
              Re: Interrupts in OoO scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-10-27 21:17 +0000
                Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-28 15:35 +0000
                Re: Interrupts in OoO George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-10-28 14:34 -0400
                Re: Interrupts in OoO scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-10-28 20:16 +0000
                Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-29 02:17 +0000
                Re: Interrupts in OoO "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-10-28 21:21 -0700
                Re: Interrupts in OoO George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2026-10-29 21:49 -0400
              Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-28 14:57 -0400
                Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-29 02:27 +0000
          Re: Interrupts in OoO EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> - 2026-10-28 14:19 -0400
            Re: Interrupts in OoO MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-28 19:02 +0000
  Re: Interrupts in OoO (was: Microarchitectural support for counting) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-10-26 17:45 +0000
    Re: Interrupts in OoO (was: Microarchitectural support for counting) MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-10-27 16:39 +0000

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